V.Y. Stromov – lawyer and leader of the region’s legal community

The work is dedicated to the rector of Derzhavin Tambov State University, a major public and political figure, editor-in-chief of the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” Vladimir Yuryevich Stromov, who passed away on March 10, 2022. The work notes the professional development and path of V.Y. Stromov, who managed in different periods to combine a lawyer, theorist, deputy, rector. The scientific interests of V.Y. Stromov, which included issues of implementation and effectiveness of criminal penalty, emphasize the identified socio-cultural phenomenon of criminal penalty, declarative nature of the penal policy. Attention is paid to the vigorous activity of V.Y. Stromov within the legal community as a member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, subsequently – Chairman of the executive Committee of the Tambov branch of the Association of Lawyers of Russia and a member of the Board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia at the federal level.