The 1922 Land Code of the RSFSR (russian: Земельный кодекс, ''Zemelniy kodeks'') was the first principal document that systemized
land
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legislation
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in the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
. It was adopted at the 4th session of the
All-Russian Central Executive Committee
The All-Russian Central Executive Committee ( rus, Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет, Vserossiysky Centralny Ispolnitelny Komitet, VTsIK) was the highest legislative, administrative and r ...
(VTsIK) and carried into effect on December 1, 1922.
The 1922 Land Code was elaborated under the supervision and with the direct participation of
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...
. The main purpose of the code was to regulate the land tenure by rural communities. Similar land codes were adopted by other republics of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
between 1922 and 1929. After the universal
agricultural
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collectivization
Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member ...
, land codes of the Soviet republics lost their significance.
In 1970-1971, the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
adopted new land codes in all of the republics. The
1970 Land Code of the RSFSR was adopted on December 1, 1970.
In modern
Russia
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the
2001 Land Code of the Russian Federation (Земельный кодекс Российской Федерации от 25 октября 2001 г. N 136-ФЗ), with a number of later amendments is in effect.
The 2001 Land Code of the Russian Federation
with amendments of 2003, 2004 and 2005
See also
*Decree on Land
The Decree on Land (), written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on , following the success of the October Revolution.
It decreed an abolition of private property, an ...
References
Land Code, 1922
Land Code, 1922
Official documents of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet law
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