Genesis of the Russian legislation on responsible attitude to animals

For a long time, animals have been involved in domestic, service, professional, industrial and other kinds of activity. In 2020 the updated constitutional guideline updated scientific attention to the problems of responsible attitude to animals. In this regard, the article analyzes the normative legal acts that laid the foundation for such relations. Chronologically, the study covered the norms of the Soviet period of the Russian state development since 1918.