ISSUES OF SUSPENDED SENTENCE APPLICATION IN RUSSIAN LEGISLATION Burkina O.A., PhD at Law, colonel of interior service. <...> Place of study: Perm Institute of the Federal Penal Service. <...> Annotation: The article considers some issues of the theory and practice of criminal punishment. <...> Aim: the authors analyse Art. 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on Suspended Sentence on the basis of criminal law, scientific literature, judicial statistics, and suggest solutions for the problems that exist in this area. <...> Model: the methodological basis of this study is composed of methods of scientific cognition. <...> The dialectical method is the main among them. <...> The authors of this article use common scientific research methods (dialectic method, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and specification) and private research methods (formally legal, comparative legal, technical and legal). <...> The main methods applied in the course of this research are comparative and systematic research methods. <...> Results: the authors insist on the necessity of amending Art. 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. <...> Practical significance: conclusions and suggestions of the authors might be used in legislative practice on the improvement of the Criminal Law and in further research of this issue. <...> Conclusions: it is necessary to amend Art. 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, i.e. to separate people convicted to suspended sentence for grave and violent crimes and people convicted for imprisonment for crimes against health and decency. <...> Amendments will significantly improve the effectiveness of criminal law in the sphere of criminal punishment. <...> Originality/value: this research will allow solving the problems that arise when applying the norms given in Art. 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. <...> В статье рассматриваются проблемные вопросы, возникающие в теории и на практике применения условного осуждения Цель: авторы анализируют ст. 73 УК РФ «Условное осуждение» на основе уголовного законодательства, научной литературы, судебной статистики, и предлагают пути решения, имеющихся проблем. <...> Модель: методологическую основу данного исследования составляет совокупность методов научного познания, среди которых ведущее место занимает диалектический метод. <...> В статье использованы общенаучные (диалектика, анализ и синтез, абстрагирование и конкретизация) и частнонаучные (формально-юридический, сравнительно-правовой, технико-юридический <...>