Contents and essence of the right for inviolability private life in the Russian Federation

Purpose: Research of contents and essence of the right for inviolability private life in the Russian Federation. Methodology: Historical and legal and formally legal methods were used. Results: Development of the Constitution in Russia regarding regulation of the right for personal privacy was contradictory: from a complete negation before fixing of the right for secret of correspondence and eventually before recognition of the right for protection of private life. But in the absence of direct action of standards of the Basic Law it was emasculated at realization in the industry legislation. It should be noted that in the history of the Russian law the right for protection of private life much was recognized earlier as science, than found the standard fixing. Novelty/originality/value: Article has the high scientific value as is one of the first attempts to consider contents and essence of the right for personal privacy in the Russian Federation.