摘要：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.
