Land is an irreplaceable and priceless wealth of society. Land is the most important resource of nature, a material condition for human life and activity, a material condition for people's livelihood, the main source of food. In this regard, the organization and rational use of land is the basic condition for the existence and development of any nation. Rational use of lands implies ensuring such use, which takes into account geographical, natural-climatic, landscape and soil characteristics of lands, needs in creating comfortable and safe conditions for residence and life activity of the population in combination with the interests of economically efficient land use, preservation of the integrity of land plots and prevention of their fragmentation, protection of lands and other natural objects, prevention of dangerous negative changes in their condition. One of the means of ensuring rational land use are measures on land management of the territory. At the same time, land management as a socio-economic phenomenon has its own regularities of manifestation, its subject and methods of scientific research.