Abstract
The article is devoted to Veniamin E. Chirkin, a prominent Russian legal scientist, representative of the academic science of Constitutional Law and comparative jurisprudence, whose 100th anniversary is celebrated by the legal community of our country in 2024. The work provides biographical data, in particular about V. E. Chirkin’s participation in the Great Patriotic War, shows his formation and development as a personality and scientist. The characteristic is given of V. E. Chirkin as a public figure who made a significant contribution to strengthening cooperation between our State and developing countries that have freed themselves from colonial dependence. The scientific understanding of the fundamental political and legal category of “public power” and state studies is presented. It is concluded that V. E. Chirkin’s ideas turned out to be visionary in many ways, which is confirmed by the legalization of the institute of public power as a result of the 2020 constitutional reform. The scientific legacy of V. E. Chirkin remains relevant, requires further study and remains a subject for discussion, in particular, it concerns the problem of State Law.