The article examines the role and importance of domestic land management at different stages of the country's development and land reforms. The analysis has led to the conclusion that land management is currently in decline, despite its obvious relevance in solving key problems in agricultural land use, including at the municipal level. Most likely, land use planning will remain as one of the tools of land use management, but it will not be the same as it has become over the past century — not engineering, but, for example, soil science or urban (urban planning).