The Arctic zone of the Russian Federation: the development of legislation in the soviet period

The paper contains the detailed analysis of thirty-three legal acts of the Soviet period specifically addressing the Arctic zone, namely the instruments of the international law, bases of public administration, environmental law and safety. The conclusion has been made that the development of the regulatory framework contributed to the Soviet Union geo-economic objectives in the Arctic and lawmaking in the 1980s was the most complete and effective in ensuring the safety of flights over the Arctic and navigation in ice. It has been shown that the rulemaking of the Soviet period in determining state borders of the USSR and the Arctic zone laid the foundations of the sectorial principle of demarcation used in international politics to date.