Corruption in the field of state and municipal procurement (historical and legal digression)

The article is devoted to the consideration of corruption in the implementation of state and municipal procurement (hereinafter referred to as “public procurement”, “procurement” etc.) as a complex socio-social phenomenon. Contractual relations, including to meet the needs of the state, have been known since the time of the Roman Empire. Information has been preserved about the bidding process more than a thousand years ago in Veliky Novgorod. In the chronicles we find the Decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of 1595. Since the time of Peter the Great, government contracts have been conducted on the principles of transparency, equality of participants, and responsibility of the parties. Anti-dumping measures were used. During the Soviet period of the development of our society, the planned economy of the country, and the legal regulation of various spheres of life, anti-corruption was successful, except perhaps in the last years of the Soviet Union. In modern Russia, the issues of combating corruption in the field of state and municipal procurement are of pronounced relevance. Thus, modern “high-profile” cases, presumably related to the personal enrichment of major military officials in public procurement for the Russian army, emphasize the relevance, even the topicality, of this scientific work.