Abstract: This article is dedicated to analysis of the processes of establishment and development of the institution of municipal land ownership. Analysis is conducted on the mechanisms of mediation of municipal land ownership as the legal institution of the unified system of distributed over time historical-legal, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical factors of its emergence and evolution, which being interrelated and interdependent formed the fundamental requirements to legal regulation of this legal institutions, as well as determines the vector of its development. The authors believe that establishment and development of the institution of municipal land ownership in the Russian Federation has passed several historic stages, mediated by the unified system of distributed over time historical-legal, socioeconomic and sociopolitical conditions of the emergence and development of the institution of municipal land ownership in Russia. In the authors’ opinion, further development of municipal ownership law in the Russian Federation requires comprehensive modernization and improvements of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, current legislation, including numerous decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, Government of the Russian Federation, as well as other federal and regional government branches, local self-governance, case law of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts of the Russian Federation.