Awarding the sign “Resident of beleaguered Sevastopol” as a new basis for assigning persons to the category of veterans of the Great Patriotic War

In this article, the author considers persons awarded the sign “Resident of Beleaguered Sevastopol” as a new basis for classifying persons as veterans of the Great Patriotic War, introduced into the legislation of the Russian Federation in 2020, drawing an analogy with the status of persons awarded with the sign “Resident of Blockaded Leningrad » In order to improve the specified subcategory of veterans of the Great Patriotic War. According to the author, the legal relationship regarding the assignment of the federal title of veteran of the Great Patriotic War for persons who lived in beleaguered Sevastopol currently includes, in addition to the material and legal component (the fact of a person’s residence in Sevastopol during the specified period), also procedural component in the sphere of awards of the subject of the Russian Federation, which is at the discretion of the legislator of the subject of the Russian Federation. The author proposes to abandon the criterion for awarding a sign in favor of establishing in the federal law specific criteria for the residence of persons in a certain territory during the Great Patriotic War, to adopt a Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation on the procedure for determining persons falling under the criteria of residence in these cities, so that this determination can be carried out on the entire territory of the Russian Federation, and also establish a single criterion for referring to veterans of the Great Patriotic War for residents of beleaguered Sevastopol and blockaded Leningrad, associated with the fact of living in these cities during the beleaguer (blockade).