Legal status of mining property in Russia: history and modern issues

The article examines historical experience in the aspect of the concept of "mining property", which is relevant for the modern practice of regulating relations in the field of subsoil use.In the legislation of the Russian Empire and a num-ber of foreign countries, mining property was considered as an indivisible complex, a mining enterprise.The empha-sis is on the advisability of returning to the origins of mining regulation, namely, to the concept of mining property as a single complex, since the allocation of all types of mining workings as independent objects of rights creates difficul-ties in terms of their taxation and legal accounting.