Doctor of Law, Professor. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Civil Procedure of the Ural State Law Academy Vladimir Nikolaevich Zaka. Born in 1936 in the village of Sabdat, Chartak district of the Uzbek SSR, one of the pioneers in the development of the institution of procedural representation. In 1960 he graduated from the Saratov Law Institute. Then he worked as a lawyer, district court judge, head of the prosecutor's office department, head of the sector of the Research Institute of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, professor of the Ural State. legal acad. He lectured on civil procedure and the theory of state and law. Author of over 50 works on problems of civil proceedings, the state of the rule of law and individual rights.