head of Economic Security and Criminal Legal Disciplines Department of Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Russian University of Economics named after G. V. Plekhanov”, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, honoured worker of Higher School of the Russian Federation, honoured lawyer of Moscow region, honoured worker of science and engineering of the Russian Federation./ 36 Stremyanny per., Moscow, 117997. E-mail: www.vanokra@mail.ru

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The article considers historical legal and organizational aspects of emergence and development of the aim of reformation while under restraint of judicial punishment in the Russian criminal law. While analysing the sources of the Russian law — starting from the Old Russian (Prince Igor’s Contract, “Russkaya Pravda”, “Pravda Yaroslavichey”, etc.) till the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with the most recent amendments, the author comes to the conclusion that the meaning of the word “reformation” expresses the main view on the aim of punishments: in the end of ХVIII — beginning of XIX centuries there were formed the reformative aims and introduced the reformative punishments, as well as there were developed concepts of moral and juridical reformations, which have got further development in a post revolutionary (soviet) stage of development of penal law states and preserved in the existing Criminal and Penal Execution Codes of the Russian Federation.