The article examines the impact of the World Heritage protection system on the regulation of land ownership relations in Russia and foreign countries. In the framework of the study the provisions of the Guidelines for the Implementation of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and other normative documents of the World Heritage protection system in terms of the regulation of land relations are analyzed. The characteristics of the regulation of the right of ownership of land resources in international legal sources are given. Socio-historical reasons which made it impossible to regulate the ownership relations directly in the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage are defined. Particular attention is paid to the legal positions developed in the practice of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Committee). The raised problems are considered with the use of different methods, one of which is the comparative legal method of research. The impact of the World Heritage protection system on the regulation of property relations within the World Heritage site “Belize Barrier Reef Reserves” is analyzed in detail. The results are correlated with the legal regulation and practice of protection of the World Heritage Site “Lake Baikal”. In conclusion of the work the results of the analysis are summarized, and some recommendations on possible ways to improve certain provisions of the Russian legislation are formulated. It is proposed to introduce amendments into the Federal Law “On Specially Protected Natural Areas” in terms of fixing the peculiarities of legal protection of the World Heritage sites, as well as to prepare a strategy for the protection of unique natural sites of global significance.

land relations, international law, world heritage, international treaties, protected areas

Kolobov Roman Yurievich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Assistant Professor of Department of International and Comparative Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation); Researcher of Department of Regional Economic and Social problems, Irkutsk Scientific Centre of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (134, Lermontova st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0003-1488-7530, ResearcherID: H-4644-2016, RSCI AuthorID: 505082, e-mail: roman.kolobov@gmail.com

Kolobov R. Y. Vliyanie sistemy ohrany vsemirnogo naslediya na regulirovanie zemel'nyh otnoshenij [The impact of the world heritage protection system on the regulation of land relations] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2023, no 3(102), pp. 108–114. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2023.3.108.

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