Pension Relations: Succession and Development of Legal Views of A.D. Zaykin

The article is devoted to the analysis of scientific conclusions made by A.D. Zaikin in his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Law ‘Legal relations on pension provision in the USSR’, defended in 1974 at a meeting of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Legal relations on pension provision, as in the Soviet period, remain distributive, state-alimentary obligations guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In these legal relations, the state is still an obligated party, and an individual (or family) is an authorized party, which can’t be denied a pension if the conditions established by law are met, regardless of whether there is a shortage of funds in the Pension and Social Insurance Fund (SFR). This deficit is covered annually from the federal budget. There forms of the pension system that took place in the post-Soviet period do not reduce the reliability and scientific validity of the conclusions made in A.D. Zaikin's dissertation. His works in the field of social security together with the works of other outstanding Soviet scientists — V.S. Andreev, R.I. Ivanova, V.K. Mironov, V.A. Tarasova laid the foundation of the University school of social security law.