Practical aspects of land category definitions

The authors analyzed the norms of the current land legislation on the division of lands in the Russian Federation on purpose to categories in correlation with the legislation on town planning activity. The main attention is paid to practice of their application by the bodies of local self-government, bodies of cadastre and state registration of rights, courts of arbitration and courts of General jurisdiction. Discusses some of the practical aspects of the land category. It is concluded that the illegality of cadastral registration, granting and registration of the rights to land plots without specifying the category of the lands. There remains the possibility of registration without specifying the category of land to the availability of land rights arising before the entry into force of the Federal law № 122-ФЗ and before the enactment of the Land code of the Russian Federation.