Abstract
<jats:p>This study focuses on legal norms governing liability for document falsification as a negative social phenomenon, and the historical experience of combating it. It demonstrates the evolution of legal regulation of criminal liability for document falsification within Russian criminal law. Various methods were applied during the study, including formal logic tools, historical and retrospective analysis, classification, abstraction, inductive and deductive approaches, hypothesis generation and testing, formal legal methods, and case law analysis. The result provides an in-depth overview of the historical development and transformation of legislative norms establishing liability for the falsification of documents, seals, stamps, and forms. The historical and legal analysis demonstrates that the roots of this criminal prohibition date back to the formation of the Old Russian state, specifically the 9th century. The development of the relevant norms occurred in stages. Since current legislation (Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) contains certain problematic aspects in the classification of the criminal act in question, it is proposed to introduce appropriate amendments to eliminate them.</jats:p>