Issues of Land Use and Protection in Strategic Planning of Subsoil Use at the Federal Level

The directions of strategic planning of subsoil use were studied in their intersection with the tasks of land use and protection. Strategic planning documents at the federal level establish the basic provisions for strategic planning in the area. Only a few of them raise issues of land use and protection in connection with the implementation of subsoil use. The author classified such acts. The subsoil users’ actions on land are considered in such acts exclusively from the perspective of protecting the environment and lands as its component. Measures that could help alleviate the problem of timely and unimpeded receipt of lands and land plots for the use of subsoil are not formulated in the selected acts. It is advisable to apply the provisions of strategic planning documents that are more general in content, in particular on the rational and integrated use of natural resources, when determining a position on this issue.