Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The purpose of the article is to find out the peculiarities of land relations in Volyn in 1941-1944 on the basis of a systematic analysis of the historical and legal literature, normative legal acts of the Nazi occupation power and archival documents. The methodological basis was chosen taking into account the objective and specificity of the object and subject of study. The basis is the system of methods of scientific knowledge: formal logic (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy, abstraction) – in order to clarify the content of the issues under consideration; theoretical – for the analysis of scientific literature; method of systematic analysis – to summarize the features of legal land regulation. In addition, statistical, problem-chronological, empirical, comparative and source-based methods were also used. The scientific novelty of the publication is to formulate new provisions in the context of historical and legal science concerning the peculiarities of legal land regulation in Volyn during the Nazi occupation, which have not yet been the subject of study by researchers. Conclusions. During the Nazi occupation in Volyn, certain peculiarities of land relations were formed that were not characteristic for other districts that were part of the Reich Commission “Ukraine”. If on the territory of the Reich Commission “Ukraine” the main form of farming in the countryside during the Nazi occupation became public farms created on the basis of the former collective farms and in structure they differed little from them, the peculiarity of Volyn was that the individual land use with private ownership of the land plot provided by the Nazi occupation regime was the main form of farming. Another feature of land legal relations in Volyn was the force activities of the OUN and UPA. Beginning late 1942, they were active in this area and made it difficult and partially impossible to carry out German transformations in the field of land regulation