The Issue of the Correlation between Legal Regimes of Territories of National Parks and Settlements Located Therein in the Russian Federation

The study devotes its text to the important problem of the actual coexistence of Russian Federation’s national parks and some Russian settlements, mainly on the Irkutsk region example. The scientific article includes in its structure, among other things, the Pribaikalsky National Park’s brief description, as well as specific examples from the Irkutsk Region practice, in which settlements are still preserved and actively developed in the Pribaikalsky National Park. The work objectively takes into account the prevailing set of the Russian Federation’s environmental and land laws that regulate the national parks formation and functioning, in the sense that it allows to ensure genuine environmental safety within the borders of Russian national parks. The study actively criticizes the some individuals’ point of view, being regularly observed and permanently promoted at various levels of national government, supporting the idea of indispensable legal and actual preservation of the current state of affairs, as well as the idea of easing the existing environmental legislation norms admissibility, as a position that hides the true aspirations of these persons for achieving goals for the population well-being. At the same time, contrary to this position, the article proposes some different ways to improve national legislation in order to reduce and neutralize existing risks for the Russian ecological system. The article has a fairly high scientific and educational value, it is designed for a wide range of readers, both being related to the political or legal professions, and to environmental or other socially significant activities.