Abstract
<jats:p>The subject of the research is the norms of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation aimed at protecting the social (cultural and historical) memory of the people of Russia, as well as the theoretical problems of determining their location in the system of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the research is to give a reasoned assessment of the deployment of norms on crimes against the social memory of the people of Russia in the system of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation through the prism of universal and state-civil (as a type of group) levels of social memory, to formulate proposals for its optimization. When writing the work, dialectical, general scientific (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, systemic, generalization), special (formal-legal, legal modeling) methods of cognition were used. The object of the research is social relations developing over the preservation, strengthening and use of the social memory of the people of Russia. Research findings: the correct approach of the domestic legislator to determining the place in the system of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of the norms on crimes provided for by Art. 243-244, 282.4, 354.1, since generic and species objects of these socially dangerous acts are relevant to the levels of social memory, which are destructive. The location in the system of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of the norms on crimes provided for by Art. 164, 190, 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, needs to be revised. The expediency of combining these criminal law prohibitions with a group of norms located in Ch. 25 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in connection with the proximity of the immediate objects of crimes, the specifics of their subjects, the priority of harm caused to the all-Russian social memory.</jats:p>