Granting a right to use subsoil areas as a legal institution of mining law

The article provides complete analysis of mining law and its place in Russian legal system nowadays. The author offers an overview of the development of scientific positions regarding the place and content of mining law and its key legal institutions. The author proves the presence of a special legal institution in contemporary mining law aimed at granting the right of subsoil usage. He also defines the contents of this legal institution. The article also deals with the place of legal relations providing the usage of subsoil areas and their role in the system of mining law. The article also deals with the question of a comparison of legal relations providing the usage of subsoil areas with the property relations on subsoil and subsoil usage.