The prosecutor of Tavriya region performed the supervision over observance of laws in the enforcement of court judgments delivered in criminal cases, as well as in the application of other coercive measures related to the restraint of individual personal liberty.
At the Crimean Public Record Office, there are notes about the following prosecutors of Crimea: Fabr, Semen Mayer, Stanislav Borovsky, Oleksandr Glukhov.
The District Court of Simferopol consisted of two houses and began its work on 22 April 1869 after the issue of the Senate's decree dated 5 July 1868.
One of the first steps of newly declared the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea was the establishment of the local bodies of Justice.
The year 1923 was very important – on 1 June the Main Governing Body of Russia had implemented on its territory the Criminal Code which inferred to the establishment of the State Prosecution as a part of Ministry of Justice.
There are several names of the prosecutors of the ASSR of Crimea that could be found in historical sources: Reshid Nagayev, Osman Berikov, Plinokos, Sofu, Memeth Emir-Saliev.
When the Crimean peninsula was occupied by the German troops in November 1941, the work of the prosecution Service was stopped until 4 October 1943 when it was renewed in Krasnodar where the Prosecutor of the ASSR of Crimea (Chekalov) had been relocated together with his deputies and the heads of Divisions (Norden and Korkin).
When in June 1945 the ASSR of Crimea had lost its particular status (Autonomous), the prosecution was renamed into the prosecutor's office of Crimean region.
That was the time of resonant economic crimes, the investigations were held with the part of the detective and later the prosecutor of the Crimean Republic – Valentyn Kuptsov.
In 1990 the operational situation in Crimea got much worse: almost daily there were shots and people died, a lot of powerful criminal groups appeared, the largest of which had 50-60 members.
Because of the occupation of the peninsula by Russian Federation the prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was temporarily relocated to Kyiv.
In Ukraine, there was an "unconstitutional seizure of power by radical nationalists with the support of armed gangs," and in this situation, the Supreme Council "assumes full responsibility for the fate of the Crimea."