Land plot as an object of use

Introduction: legal literature practically does not cover the issue of the land plot as an object of use or, in other words, as an object of economic activity. At the same time, the land plot as an object of ownership, as well as of other rights provided for by the Land Code of the Russian Federation, is an object of relations concerning land use, and in this capacity it acts as an object of inter-branch regulation. Purpose: to develop an idea of the land plot as an object of land use relations taking into account the inter-branch nature of those. Methods: formal logic, historical, comparative legal and system-structural methods. Results: branch characteristics of the relations concerning the use of land plots as well as specific features of their legal regulation do not allow us to merely apply the civil law concept 'immovable thing' as it is to the land plot as an object of use. Conclusions: currently, the land plot as an object of use is an immovable thing with a regulated (planned) limit of use. By setting the limit for the use of a land plot, the state obliges one to conduct a permitted type of activity, taking into account the principles of planning and mandatory use of land plots, which significantly curtails the freedom of the right holders of land plots. In order to balance public and private interests in the use of land plots, these principles should receive new content in the conditions of demonopolization of state ownership of land.