The concept of a settlement is still not in the laws on local government - but it should be

Since the early 1990s, in the USSR (at the final stage) and then in the Russian Federation, on the basis of the 1993 Constitution, a new model of the institution of local government began to be formed in the form of local self-government - instead of the previously functioning local Councils of People's Deputies. Since then, many relevant laws have been adopted regulating in detail various aspects of local self-government, including the still-in-force Federal Law "On General Principles of Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation" in 2003, and a draft of a new federal municipal law has been developed, submitted to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, in addition The laws on local self-government are in force in each subject of the Federation. However, some key categories have not been interpreted. The article considers one of these categories, namely "locality". This concept is actively used, but is not disclosed in the federal legislative acts of post-Soviet Russia, which seems to be incorrect, since it creates certain difficulties, and above all for the state authorities of the subjects of the Federation, when forming the territorial organization of local self-government. The analysis of a number of relevant normative legal acts of the Soviet state, where this issue was regulated in its own way, is presented. Different points of view on the subject of the study are considered. The author's proposals on the formulation of the specified category "locality" are substantiated.