Public and private interests in regulation of land use

Introduction: the article analyzes the evolution of Russian legislation on the use of land plots in the post-Soviet period from the perspective ofpublic and private interests as reflected therein. Purpose: to analyze the development of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the use of land plots, with a focus on relations regarding the economic exploitation of the land plot as a natural resource; to assess current legislation from the perspective of the balance of public and private interests. Methods: methods offormal logic, historical, comparative legal and system-structural methods. Results: the development of legislation on the use of land plots in the Russian Federation has been inconsistent. At the first stage, before the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the public interest acted as the limit of the exercise of ownership of land and other natural resources. The Constitution of the Russian Federation does not directly establish the social function of ownership of land and other natural resources. The provisions of the Constitution imply the potential opportunity for the development of various concepts of ownership in land law. Currently, the Land Code of the Russian Federation reflects the social function of ownership, which follows from a number of basic principles of land legislation. The legislator subordinated the regulation of relations on the use of land plots to public interests and, at the same time, liberalized the rights and obligations of the owners of land plots in contrast to the Land Code of the RSFSR of 1991. From our point of view, this circumstance demonstrates the legislator's desire to harmonize land and civil legislation in the regulation of land use.