title: USE OF RADIOCOMMUNICATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY IN THE USSR FOR SECURITY OF MERCHANT SHIPPING
abstract: In the work one researches the legal basis for the functioning of services that ensure the safety of navigation in the first half of the 20th century in the USSR. An important place among such services was occupied by the pilotage service. The features of the legal regulation of its activities based on the key legal acts of the studied period are considered. Among them are the «Pilot charter of sea pilots of the RSFSR» dated June 3, 1922, the USSR Council of People’s Commissars decree «On state 
journal: Scientific Notes of V I Vernadsky Crimean Federal University Juridical science