RESEARCH ISSUES OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS SITES IN RUSSIA

The article presents an analysis of research on the issues of studying the social and legal aspects of the construction of religious sites in Russia. The following groups of works on this issue have been identified: 1) historical and cultural, social and philosophical, and philosophical and cultural studies that focus on the connection of religious construction with the history of culture, social transformations, forms and strategies of management; 2) publications, the subject of which is the peculiarities of the formation of the legal basis for the construction of religious objects in Russia; 3) studies that examine the construction of religious buildings in the context of correlating the prospects for the development of Russian legislation and the tasks of improving the urban environment; 4) works that determine trends in the development of social concepts of urban planning, including the construction of religious buildings; 5) publications related to specific issues of legal regulation of the religious use of land and the construction of religious buildings. The article examines works, the subject of which is both the problem of finding the theoretical foundations for the development of this area of law, and the issues of the practice of law enforcement in solving the problems of the religious building’s construction in Russia. The right to the city concept (H. Lefebvre, D. Harvey) can serve as a theoretical basis for the formation of the urban environment, the development of social relations in the city, prevention and overcoming of urban conflicts. It can be implemented during reception in the legal sphere, what requires to determine the essence of the right to the city within the framework of jurisprudence, to specify the subjects of this law, to develop ways of legislative consolidation and enforcement mechanisms.