Abstract: The subject of the research is the fraud object in the sphere of state and municipal (public) procurement. The aforesaid kind of fraud is not specially stated by the Russian Federation criminal law. Meanwhile, there is a great number of thefts committed in the sphere of public procurement and resulting in the loss of many millions from the budgets at different levels. For successful counteraction of such crimes, it is necessary, first of all, to define the object of aforesaid fraud and to describe specific features thereof. Another debatable issue of legal science is the question about the general object of crime. In his article Gudkov analyzes views of theorists and sources of criminal law in different historical periods as well as judicial practice in defining the object of crime including fraud and specific features of the sphere of public procurement. The main conclusions of the research are the following: - general, generic and specific fraud objects in public procurement and the main component elements of fraid are the same; - the main indirect fraud object in public procurement is the social relations that ensure inviolability of state and municipal property; - additional indirect fraud object in procurement is the social relations that ensure efficiency and good performance of the contract system in the sphere of procurement of goods, works and services for state and municipal needs.