Social security of state civil servants in form of insurance

The subject of this research is the legal norms and law enforcement practice in the area of social security of civil servants trough implementation of insurance mechanism. The object of this research is insurance as a special organizational-legal form of social security of the citizens. A detailed analysis is conducted on the various forms and types of insurance (compulsory and voluntary, social and state), offered by a legislator in social security of this category of employees. Special attention is given to the compulsory state social insurance, its legal nature, peculiarities of medical insurance of civil servants. The scientific novelty consists in carrying out a summarized analysis of the development and current state of legal regulation and law enforcement practice on the questions of establishment and implementation of insurance mechanisms of social security of civil servants. It is determined that the right of civil servants to social security is exercised mostly through implementation of  various forms and types of insurance mechanisms of heterogeneous sectoral nature. The compulsory state social insurance is envisaged only with regards to civil and municipal servants, and represents a subtype of compulsory social insurance. There is a need for legalization of this concept by means of introduction of corresponding amendments to social-insurance legislation. Compulsory state insurance also has the key features of social-security relations, which allows viewing it as one of the organizational-legal forms of the system of social security. The author suggests regulating the question of insurance coverage of civil servants on the federal level in case of infliction of harm to their life and health while on service, as well as pass a law on medical insurance of public servants.