The legal nature of the documentation for the demarcation of the city boundary of Kyiv in kind and its role in entering the data of the city boundary of Kyiv into the state land cadastre
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines the legal nature of setting out the boundaries of an administrative-territorial unit on the ground and determines the role of documentation in establishing the boundaries of the City of Kyiv. The study analyses the relationship between the procedures for establishing administrative-territorial boundaries, setting them out on the ground, marking them with boundary markers, and entering the relevant information into the State Land Cadastre. It is demonstrated that these procedures differ in their legal nature and should not be treated as identical legal institutions. The evolution of the legal regulation governing the setting out of administrative-territorial boundaries is examined, together with the development of the relevant land management legislation and the place of technical documentation within the system of land management documentation. The paper substantiates the author's approach, according to which setting out the boundaries of an administrative-territorial unit constitutes an independent technical land management procedure aimed at reproducing an already established boundary on the ground. Such a procedure does not create, modify, or terminate administrative-territorial legal relations. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the documentation on the setting out of the Kyiv city boundary prepared by the Kyivproject Institute in 1959–1964, the subsequent recalculation of boundary coordinates carried out in 1976, and the works performed by the Ukrainian State Institute of Engineering-Geodetic Surveys and Mapping in 1989–1990. Based on the analysis of archival materials, land legislation, and judicial practice, it is established that this documentation has a derivative technical and evidentiary character and cannot be regarded as an independent legal basis for establishing or altering the boundaries of the City of Kyiv. The article concludes that, in resolving disputes concerning administrative-territorial boundaries, primary attention should be given to legal acts adopted by competent authorities, land management documentation, and historical materials that served as the basis for establishing the relevant boundary. By contrast, technical documentation on setting out the boundary and the data contained in the State Land Cadastre should be regarded only as derivative sources of evidentiary information.
Author: Oleg Gurynenko
Institution: KROK University
Language: Ukrainian
Topic: Land Use and Management
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7203754359