Criminal law science in the study of the tasks of criminal law

In the presented article, using comparative criminal law as one of the methods of criminal law science, one of the relevant scientific and practical provisions of important criminal law significance is considered the category “tasks of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”. The applied scientific technique made it possible to determine their role, legal status, pay special attention to their evolution, features of formulation in Soviet and current criminal legislation, reveal their essential and meaningful characteristics, identify signs, specific features.