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.

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Economic advancement of society is accompanied by social phenomena of various nature. Hence, there is a need for legal regulation of such relations: characterization of legal relations; definition of the parties, legal regime for the matter of those relations, plus sanctioning for non-performance or improper performance of the law. The paper discusses legalization of unauthorized construction objects that entails to study in theory the possibility of recognition of illegal buildings as unauthorized. The authors pose a number of unsolved questions: the problem of legal nature of an authorized construction as a specific object of civil rights; identification of criteria to categorize construction objects as unauthorized; distinction of types of unauthorized constructions which may or in no event can be legalized; elaboration of methods and means to legalize unauthorized constructions and other conceptual issues. The authors have stated that legally opposite effects of unauthorized constructions in the form of demolition or recognition as illegal building offer no compromise between the parties. The authors have proven impossible to conduct administrative procedure for demolition of unauthorized constructions. The removing of an unauthorized building is only possible judicially.

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).

This article is devoted to the application of the marriage contract by persons entering or already married. The authors define the relevance of concluding marriage contracts and emphasize the positive trend of their application in Russia. As a rule, the question of the division of property is the most difficult and problematic both in theory and in practice. In scientific circles, there is a discussion about the legal nature of the marriage contract. The specifics of its conclusion and the scope of regulation of relations do not give an unambiguous answer about the branch affiliation of this legal institution. There are also a large number of gaps in the Family Code of the Russian Federation due to the lack of legislative consolidation of some aspects related to the contractual regime of spouses’ property. In addition, there is still an unresolved issue regarding the conditions and procedure for concluding a marriage contract by minor citizens entering into marriage. In the article, the authors come to the conclusion that the marriage contract as a legal phenomenon requires more legal regulation at the legislative level.