Ministerial Decree No. 659 of 1993 regarding validation of the Regulation on land stock-taking for the purpose of its assignment to the Russian nationals.

The Government decrees to validate the Regulation. The Government decrees that the operations regarding stocktaking must be financed through land taxes and land lease. The document consists of 8 Articles. All the categories of land are subject to stocktaking except for agricultural land. In the process of stocktaking must be elicited the following facts: 1). The compliance of the documents certifying the right of ownership of the juridical persons of the plots of land. 2). The plots of land actually in use. 3). The unused plots of land or the plots of land used contrary to their destination. 4). Contaminated and exhausted land, subject to re-cultivation. 5). Forestry lands either not covered by the forest vegetation or covered by shrubbery. 6). Land covered by forest of little value, situated outside suburban zones of the plantation of trees and shrubs and other specially protected areas. In the process of land stocktaking must be exposed the location, the area, the qualitative state of land and the causes of the deterioration of land. The ratified materials of land stocktaking are the legal basis for re-registration of the right of land ownership and entering of the respective modifications into the land cadastre documentation.