. Once again on the legal nature of a concession agreement.

Abstract: In author’s opinion, a concession agreement should not be viewed just as a typical civil contract, since such a view does not allow to recognize specific features of concession agreement in the sphere of use of subsurface of the earth, namely, the nature of subsurface as the subject of such contracts. In K.I. Naletov’s article one can find analysis of similar and different features of commercial concession and concession with a public legal element. The author also studies specific features of a concession contract in the sphere of use of subsurface, modern state of legislation and international practice on this issue, analyzes the possibility of recognizing a concession agreement as an administrative contract.