LEGISLATIVE REGULATION OF CIVIL PROTECTION FOR THE FORMATION OF MECHANISMS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THIS SPHERE

Abstract

The article analyzes the peculiarities of studying the legal regulation of civil protection in relation to the formation of mechanisms of public administration in this field, and evaluates the level of their effectiveness. It is determined that the current state of affairs concerning the low level of efficiency of functioning of the single state system of civil protection in Ukraine has its own historical roots. Over the 28 years of our country’s history, there have been a number of conflicting actions in the direction of the development of civil protection systems, and perhaps because of this a large number of problems are imposed on each other, and certain structural problems have been transformed into systemic ones.

It was determined that on October 4, 1932, the Government issued a resolution approving the Regulation on air defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Adoption of this act meant the formation of local air defense of the country, the basis of future civil defense. Local air defense is designed to protect the public from a hostile air attack. According to the Regulations, the national leadership of local air defense relied on the People’s Commissariat of Defense, and in the regions of military districts, on the commanders of the respective districts.

It was proved that an important step in the strengthening of local air defense was the approval of the resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of 20.06.1937 «On local (civil) air defense of Moscow, Leningrad, Baku and Kiev», which determined the list of changes local air defense in these cities.

There are three main types of tasks that, in 1970, faced the field of civil defense:

• ensuring the protection of the population;
• increase of stability of work of industries and enterprises;
• elimination of the consequences of the use of weapons of mass destruction by the enemy, organization and carrying out of rescue and disaster recovery works in the centers of defeat and preparation of forces for their