Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name:Vasiliy Uzun Author-Name-First: Vasiliy Author-Name-Last: Uzun Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: ABEYANT STATE LANDS: PROBLEMS ANS WAYS OF THEIR SOLUTION Abstract: At the beginning of 1990s land reform was carried out in Russia. After long and very heated debates private ownership of land was permitted giving start to its privatization. Mainly lands of agricultural destination and lands of settlements were transferred to private ownership. As of January 1, 2012 lands of agricultural destination accounted for 128.6m hectares out of 133.1m hectares of privatized lands, lands of settlements – for 4.3m hectares thereof (Table 1). The rest of lands (1576.7m hectares) remained in the state and municipal ownership. Classification-JEL: Q Keywords: Agricultural policy Journal: Russian Economic Developments Year: 2013 Issue: 11 Month: November Pages: 33-36 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/225Uzun.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:225