Review

The article is devoted to the analysis of the provisions of the criminal legislation of the RSFSR, the USSR, the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR, which were applied on Ukrainian lands and provided for liability for the attack on the stock market. The provisions of these legislative acts included the following most typical types of encroachments on the stock market: forgery of securities, circulation, presentation, payment, transfer, acceptance, storage, transportation, import and sale of deliberately fake securities. Formulated conclusions regarding the stages of formation of the criminal-law protection of the stock market in the Soviet period. It is determined that the volume of such protection is determined by the volume of state interference in the stock market activity.

The article analyzes the provisions of legislative acts, which include the specified types of attacks. The article analyzes the provisions on counterrevolutionary crimes (crimes against state security), state crimes, crimes against the order of management (administrative activity), economic crimes. On the basis of the analysis, conclusions are formulated on the content of criminal law, the compliance of criminal law with the financial interests of the state, the ways of satisfying such interests, the criminal-law protection of the stock market, its individual elements and historical stages. The conclusion is drawn on the dependence of criminal and legal prohibitions on economic reforms in the field of the stock market at certain historical stages.

Keywords: securities, stock market, criminal law, crime, punishment.