Abstract
<jats:p>This article is devoted to the analysis of institutional aspects of the use of forests for various purposes in modern legal and economic conditions in the territory of the Russian Federation. In the course of the work, a list of existing legal acts containing the basic conditions for the multipurpose use of forests was determined, common approaches to the implementation of the multipurpose use of forests were formed, and a general conceptual scheme of the specified process was established. According to the results of the conducted research, it has been established that currently one person using forests for several purposes, or several such persons, can be identified in the same forest area. It is determined that the principles of sustainable forest management and forest conservation form the basis of the multipurpose use of forests in the Russian Federation. It has been established that the current provisions of the legal and economic regulation of forest legislation lead to a double interpretation of the norms of multipurpose use of forests, which leads to the need to analyze judicial practice on this issue. A number of economic and institutional regulatory measures aimed at improving the efficiency of forestry in the Russian Federation have been identified in the structure of approaches to the development of multipurpose use of forests</jats:p>