Special Purpose Land Zones as an Object of Study in Forensic Land Surveying Examination

Use of special purpose land zones (SPLZ) in their modern form is regulated by the Land Code of the Russian Federation since 2019. But the limitations associated with territorial regimes arose much earlier and are subject to examination as part of the evidence in land-related court cases. The purpose of this article is to disclose SPLZ as a spatial object as well as its three components: a zone-forming object, a geospatial object and prohibition regime. Each of them is analyzed from the point of view of the study object within the framework of forensic land surveying examination. It is shown that correct definition of properties, characteristics and composition of the object is necessary to formulate a reliable answer by the expert to the question of the court. The article describes the multidimensionality of spaces that can be examined in relation to SPLZ, identifies legal issues when analyzing the limitation regime in such zones and addresses the topics of their life cycle.