On the object of the crime of violating fire safety requirements

This article analyzes the theoretical issues of determining the object of a crime under Art. 219 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The category “fire safety” is considered in the context of public safety, as its structural element. It is concluded that fire safety, that is, the state of protection of the individual, society and the state from fires and their consequences, is provided by the state through a system of regulatory legal acts and documents containing relevant fire safety requirements. It is proved that fire safety is adjacent to public safety in terms of the interests of society, and it is in this part that public and fire safety are correlated as objects of a criminal violation of fire safety requirements.