The article is devoted to one of the most controversial issues in Russian land and property issues: the delimitation of application of civil and land law provisions in regulating legal relations. The relevance of this topic is determined by both the continuing theoretical uncertainty regarding the boundaries of private and public law influence on a land plot, and a very practical reason: it is in this area that conflicts most often arise between the freedom of civil circulation and mandatory requirements for the intended use, protection, and legal treatment of land.