THE DEVELOPMENT AND FORMATION OF THE PROSECUTION OF UKRAINE AS A PUBLIC POWER SUBJECT: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ASPECT

The study of the historical origins of the prosecution in Ukraine is a mandatory component of its study not only as a socio-legal phenomenon of public law, but also as a specific subjective institution endowed with an appropriate array of powers. The activities of the prosecution and its officials have always been included in the permanent process of state formation, so the context of finding the prerequisites for such a body and its development is a structural part of research aimed at researching the current legal status of the prosecution bodies of Ukraine and its formation. At the same time, given the staged development of the prosecution in Ukraine in different historical periods, it should be noted the accumulation of interest of the scientific community in comparative academic research to compare the current process of development of the prosecution bodies within the general changes in Ukraine. Therefore, given this and the continuous process of public law reform, it is not superfluous to trace the nature of structural and functional metamorphoses of the prosecution, as well as their analogues and prototypes, in previous historical times, including from the standpoint of the rule of law. to date. Based on the analysis of the genesis of the historical development of the prosecution in Ukraine of different epochs, research approaches to understanding the concept of the prosecution as such and its functional load in different historical periods, outlined the main stages in the periodization of the history of development, its place and role in historical and state formations, the main model approaches to the organization of activity and functioning of prosecution, interrelation of prosecution bodies in Ukraine and other branches of power in different times from emergence of prototypes of bodies of prosecution bodies to the present are found out.