The article is devoted to the consideration of the problems of application of Art. 327, Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, related to the operation of the norm in time; with delimitation from the norm covered by Art. 327, Part 5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; with the content of such an act as use, the moment of its ending, the matching with the counterfeit, as well as with the acquisition, storage and transportation. The author substantiates the conclusion about the need to exclude Part 5 of Art. 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; a broader definition of the concept of “use of a knowingly forged document” is proposed, including not only the submission of such a document in order to obtain (confirm) the rights or relieve from responsibilities, but also the very use of the obtained rights or relieving from responsibilities on the basis of the submitted document; the critical assessment of the actions of a person ordered the forged document with providing personal information is done, such actions are considered as complicity in the forgery. The author’s attention is drawn to the prevalence of incompleteness of the wording of the accusation when qualifying the actions of persons who acquired, stored, transported a forged document in order to use it, and then used it. The article formulates recommendations for solving the issues of applying Part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.