Special features of a crime subject covered by the Article 255 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

The article deals with the problems of defining the subject of the crime covered by the Article 255 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that violations of the rules of protection and use of mineral resources are widely distributed, but the criminal cases under Article 255 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are initiated very rarely. One of the reasons for this is the difficulty of determining the subject of the crime, and as a result - there are no grounds for a criminal case. The examples of the practical work are used in the article.