BROKEN LINES OF CRIMINOLOGICAL TRADITION: FROM A. A. PIONTKOVSKY SR. TO M. I. KOVALEV

The article discusses the prerequisites for the formation of the Ural school of criminology, associated with the scientific work of professor M. I. Kovalev. The context of the formation and development of criminological knowledge in Russia is described in connection with the pre-revolutionary sociological school of criminal law, Marxistoriented jurisprudence of the 1920s and judicial statistics. A slowdown in the development of criminology is noted from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1950s, after which interest in criminological problem’s researches increases. Retrospective connections of the Ural school of criminology with the school of the Moscow Law Institute are analyzed, as well as less obvious bonds with the school of the Imperial Kazan University represented by A. A. Piontkovsky Sr. through his son A. A. Piontkovsky Jr. and two of his followers – G. Yu. Manns and G. G. Maguliano, who worked at Irkutsk State University, from which the Sverdlovsk Law Institute was later separated.