The article considers special aspects of the provision of land parcels for construction, which are determined by constitutional and legal status of the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol. A number of objective circumstances determine the uniqueness of the legal status of cities of federal status. The land and urban planning legislation comprises the basis for the legal regulation of the provision of land for construction. The authors have educed the need to update the general plans of the city of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol, which is caused by the expansion of borders by means of the surrounding areas. In the cities with federal status, there are legal problems associated with the lack of land use and development of recommendations or rules. The lack of coherence in planning and implementation of urban development in the cities and the adjoining subjects of the Russian Federation - the Moscow and Leningrad regions – is an urgent problem in the development of cities with federal status.

The article raises questions of the formation of civil society around urban planning. The concepts of “public discussions” and “public hearings” enshrined in urban planning legislation are of interest to theorists and urban planners, not only because this is an obligatory stage in the adoption of urban planning documents, but also because more and more often citizens are turning to their right to direct expression of will in the form of public discussions and public hearings. The authors tried to analyze and suggest possible ways to increase the civic engagement of the local population of the municipality.

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The article discusses the problems of developing new methods of transferring unused lands, in particular ownerless and unaccounted lands, into agricultural lands in order to replenish their volume. The relevance of the research subject consists in the fact that agricultural land has the highest value among all categories of land that constitute the land reserves of the Russian Federation (RF).

the article examines the issues of administrative punishments for city planning offences in the Russian Federation. Construction offences oftentimes cause severe consequences. However, it is possible to prevent them through the improvement of administrative law. The authors research the legal components of administrative offences in construction. Several gaps have been identified that are related to non-system unspecific representation of offences which combines multiple behavior patterns formed at various construction stages of capital construction facilities. As a result of the study, several suggestions have been drafted, the implementation of which would promote both preventive measures and restraint of violations of law, primarily, on behalf of government officials.