Presidential Decree No. 1767 of 1993 regarding the regulation of land relationship and the promotion of land reform in Russia.

The President decrees that the plots of land and the property connected with them must be considered real estate. The real estate contracts are regulated by Civil Code in accordance with Land, Forestry, Environmental, other specific Legislative Acts and this Decree. Physical And juridical persons, that own plots of land, have the right to sell, to bequeath, to give as a gift, to mortgage, to lease, to exchange and to render them as a share to the-joint stock companies. Each landowner is provided with land certificate that must be registered into land cadastre. This land certificate is the unique document valid for all types of land contract. This Decree validates the form of land certificate. The Government guarantees the safety and the protection of private property on land and the protection of the rights of landlords to make contracts as regards land property. The expropriation of private land for state or public purposes is authorized on the basis of compensation by mutual accord. The purchase of the plots of land for federal purposes is conducted by the Federal Committee on Land Resources and Land Survey on the basis of the Governmental Order.