Annotation

In the context of reforming the domestic civil service system, issues of organizational and legal support for the effectiveness of professional performance are particularly important. Mentoring is one of the mechanisms for improving the quality of personnel support for labor and service relations. Its enshrinement in labor legislation, as well as its active use in the civil service system, has increased interest in the scientific justification of mentoring, taking into account extensive domestic experience. The purpose of this study is to define the concept of mentoring, analyze its evolution and legal regulation, and highlight the specific features of its use in the civil service system. In accordance with this goal, the following research objectives are set: - to trace the development of scientific and public interest in mentoring; - to substantiate the use of the concept of mentoring in domestic literature and the legal framework; - to identify the types and forms of mentoring; - to characterize the specific features of the legal regulation of mentoring in the civil service system. The research methods used included systems and comparative analysis, the structural-diachronic method, and methods of legal formalization, structuring, and classification. The study's findings suggest a renewed public and legislative interest in mentoring. It concludes that mentoring is evolving in domestic practice: from a form of training, education, and a mass patriotic movement to an anti-crisis personnel (social and pedagogical) technology and an institution for civil society development. Recent years have seen the consolidation and strengthening of the mentoring institution, as evidenced by the approval in 2025 of the Concept for the Development of Mentoring in the Russian Federation through 2030, as well as its enshrinement in labor legislation. The use of mentoring in the civil service system is characterized by its subordinate regulation and close connection with the principles of civil service. It is concluded that mentoring in the civil service system needs to be regulated at the legal and regulatory level.