This article deals with the process of establishing and the evolution of housing law as a branch of the Russian legal system. Different legal positions regarding the nature of housing law are reviewed and analyzed, the stages of development of housing law are proposed, and a conclusion is made as to the place of housing law within the Russian legal system. The formation of housing law in Russia substantially differs from the formation of housing law in the legal systems of other countries. Such distinctions and specificity in the evolution of housing law were predetermined by the historic features of development of the Russian state.The author of the article identifies three distinctive chronological periods in the formation of housing law in Russia: the first period (The Empyreal Period) ending in 1917, the second period (The Soviet Period) from 1917 to 1991, and the third period from 1991 to present time. Substantiated conclusions are made that housing law in contemporary Russia exists as an independent, complex branch of the Russian legal system, and constitutes a sub-branch of the Russian civil law.
Marina Baratova (Thu,) studied this question.