The City as the Main Administrative-Territorial Unit: A Legal Aspect

This article is an attempt to comprehend the normative legal regulation of the city as an administrative-territorial unit, around which the entire spatial structure and subsequent development are built. We have to admit that without a clear understanding of the essence of this settlement, a unanimous opinion of its location and the place of the population in it, it is hardly possible to come to an optimal state, especially by legal and, worse, bureaucratic means.