КОРУПЦІЯ НА УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЗЕМЛЯХ ЯК ПИТАННЯ КУРСУ ІСТОРІЇ ДЕРЖАВИ ТА ПРАВА

The article is devoted to the analysis of ways to obtain illegal benefits in the Ukrainian lands depending on their territorial and political affiliation and the development of legal regulation to prevent corruption in the activities of officials or public authorities. It is noted that one of the first documentary evidence of attempts to combat corruption was the Oath of the Citizen of Chersonesos, which contained the obligation of every citizen not to act to the detriment of the city-state. Attention is drawn to the analysis of the system of "feeding" in Kievan Rus, as a type of abuse of power by officials, which inevitably led to illegal corruption. It was found that for the XVII - XVIII centuries. the involvement and mercenary nature of judges, the trade in Cossack sergeant positions, the extortion of money for the favorable redistribution of the lands of the Hetmanate, or the liberation of the Cossacks from campaigns became commonplace. Founded in the XIX century. The tradition of giving gifts to officials to quickly resolve the issue in the Soviet period has reached unprecedented proportions, which suggests the existence of entire corruption schemes, which could not be overcome even by the Soviet government with its totalitarian methods of leadership. It is established that the analysis of historical sources in the context of detecting and combating corruption contributes to the establishment of interdisciplinary links, promoting better learning in both the disciplines of the humanities and special state law. In addition, examples of highprofile corruption scandals can be used for master's cases in the study of such a discipline as "Logic". Further prospects for the study may be published didactic materials of binary lectures on history and a particular field of law, where historical experience can only improve students' per-ception of the material through clarity or interesting historical facts.