THE ISSUES OF DEFINING PREPARATION OF CRIME TERM AND CLASSIFICATION OF ITS TYPES Uzdenov Rasul Magometovich, PhD at law. <...> E-mail: rasul.uzdenov@yandex.ru Abstract Urgency of an issue and study objective. <...> Urgency of an issue, mentioned in the article name, is determined by a need for conducting permanent search of optimal legislative decisions, in relation to the institution of incompleted crime in particular. <...> This issue requires us to address the problem of meaning determination and classification of types of preparation for crime. <...> Though, the issue upon consideration was already reviewed in studies: both in Russian (see e.g. Grin' M.V. “InМomplОtОН МrimО: Thesis, candidate of legal science, Krasnodar, 2003- 208p.) and foreign (see e.g. Lun Chanhai. <...> Study of crime components according to criminal law of PRC and Russia: Thesis, candidate of legal science, Vladivostok, 2009, 218p.) papers, they still retain their polemical character due to the polarity of corresponding opinions, that are presented in legal literature. <...> In this article we try to analyze the main approaches to НiППОrОntiКtО tСО mОКninР oП tСО tОrm “prОpКrКtion oП МrimО” and classifications of its types. <...> The methodological basis of this study includes: dialectical principles of social reality perception, the points of systemic approach to analyze social-legal phenomena, private-scientific methods of criminal studies (legalcomparative, formal-logic, method of documentation study, etc.) Main study results. <...> Taking into account the analysis of theoretical constructions oП tСО tОrm “prОpКrКtion oП МrimО”, аО МКn НОПinО it Кs a deed of a person, who intentionally plans to create conditions for a certain crime, that is conditions to evade criminal responsibility for performing intended crime or conditions, facilitating any criminal behavior if the crime was not performed due to reasons, beyond this person control. <...> In the basis of preparation for crime classification into different types could be the volume of deeds performed, taking into account objective and subjective qualities of crime elements under study. <...> So, we can differentiate four types of preparation for crime: Objectively and subjectively performed preparation. <...> This paper has scientific and practical significance as its conclusions can be used to: improve lawmaking and law enforcement activities in realization of criminal standards of incompleted crime institution <...>