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Vladimir An. Vinokurov - Doctor of Law, associate professor, Saint-Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Ruslan S. Stashkov - Senior Inspector of the Foreign Citizens’ Training Department of the Center for International Activities and Information Policy, Saint-Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom of Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Abstract. According to the suggestion of the Government of the Russian Federation, there has been adopted the Federal Law No. 4-FZ of February 3, 2025 “On the Safety of People on Water Bodies”, which comes into force on September 1, 2025. When reviewing the text of the bill prepared for adoption in the second reading, there have been raised critical comments of a legal nature, a number of which remained after the adoption, approval, signing and publication of the Federal Law “On the Safety of People on Water Bodies” in the prescribed manner. The purpose of the current work was to draw the attention of officials involved in the preparation and adoption of federal laws concerning human safety in general and human safety on water bodies in particular to individual legal and organizational issues that were identified by the authors when reading the text of the bill and then when studying the provisions of the said Law. The main method used in the current work was the analysis of the norms of the said Law. There have been used the comparative-legal and formal-legal methods. The conducted critical analysis of individual norms of the Federal Law “On the Safety of People on Water Bodies” will serve as a basis for correcting the obvious shortcomings of this act, which, ultimately, will allow avoiding problems with its implementation in practice.

Keywords: human safety; water bodies; small vessels; State Inspectorate for Small Vessels.

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Vinokurov V.A., Stashkov R.S. Critical analysis of individual provisions of the Federal Law “On the safe-ty of people on water bodies”// Transport law and security. 2025;1(53):18-25. (In Russ.).