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The article is devoted to the study of some problematic aspects of the legislative consolidation of the legal status of a person exercising control of a maritime autonomous surface vessel. The author considers the issues of the need to determine the scope of the functions performed by a given person at the legislative level and his responsibility, a set of rights and obligations, features of vocational training, retraining and certification, requirements for competencies, peculiarities of the work duties implementation, as well as the necessary nomenclative apparatus in the legislation of the Russian Federation. The article reveals main brief conclusions of the analysis of basic implemented measures, providing for amendments to the current legislation in the field of public relations regulation arising in the sphere of operation of autonomous maritime surface vessels and, in particular, in the sphere of the legal status of persons managing the given technical unities. Based on the current legislation analysis in the area under consideration, the author offers some recommendations for its further development, and also highlights the main areas to be regulated, considering the need for research in order to create the required rules and regulations that ensure the navigation safety in the framework of the operation of maritime autonomous surface vessels.