The urgency of the stated in the paper topic is conditioned by the fact that human rights in the Russian Federation is currently receiving increasing development not only in the framework of various public organizations, but also in the most important civilian institutions, acting in the interests of society as a whole, as the lawyers and notaries. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the evolution of the human rights functions of lawyers and notaries, their integration into civil society. The present work is based on historical and comparative research methods. Results: The study finds that, in spite of the historical attraction to absolutism now in the Russian Federation all conditions has been created for the development of all sorts of institutions of civil society; human rights functions of lawyers and notaries play an important role in protecting the rights and freedoms of individual citizens in the face of the state. The results obtained allow us to determine the role of lawyers and notaries in the development of civil society in Russia, to refute the view of the lack of interest of the modern Russian state in the development of civil rights and freedoms, to draw a conclusion about the need develop for Russia its own standards of human rights activities, based on multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism Russian society. The present  work is of interest to Russian and foreign scholars, human rights activists, lawyers, students of public relations in the Russian Federation and it promote a deeper understanding of the role of lawyers and notaries in the development of civil society.

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