The importance of protecting children and their rights, as well as observing the principle of the priority of the interests of the child, can be traced in almost all branches of Russian legislation, which is due to the constitutional recognition of childhood as the most important stage of life and a priority area of state policy, the purpose of which is to ensure the comprehensive development and well-being of the younger generation. This article focuses on the system of public authorities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the powers of which are aimed at ensuring and protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the child, in particular, at creating conditions for the comprehensive development of his or her personality. The system of bodies under study is multi-level and complex and includes territorial bodies of federal executive bodies of the Russian Federation, state authorities of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation (in particular, specially created and established bodies and positions in the field of ensuring and protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the child), as well as local government bodies.
public authority, state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, state policy of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, rights and legitimate interests of children, child
1. Zakon RF o popravke k Konstitucii RF ot 14 marta 2020 g. № 1-FKZ «O sovershenstvovanii regulirovaniya otdel'nyh voprosov organizacii i funkcionirovaniya publichnoy vlasti» // SPS «Konsul'tantPlyus».
2. Federal'nyy zakon ot 8 dekabrya 2020 g. № 394-FZ «O Gosudarstvennom Sovete Rossiyskoy Federacii» // SPS «Konsul'tantPlyus».
3. Lihova A. A. Osobennosti sistemy i struktury organov publichnoy vlasti sub'ektov Rossiyskoy Federacii po obespecheniyu i zaschite prav i zakonnyh interesov rebenka // Vestnik ekonomicheskoy bezopasnosti. 2025. № 1.
4. Semeynyy kodeks Rossiyskoy Federacii ot 29 dekabrya 1995 g. № 223-FZ (red. ot 23 noyabrya 2024 g.) (s izm. i dop., vstup. v silu s 5 fevralya 2025 g.) // SPS «Konsul'tantPlyus».



