ON THE ISSUE OF CONCEPT AND CONTENT OF THE MODEL OF LEGAL REGULATION OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES Voronina Natalia Pavlovna, PhD at law, associate professor. <...> Place of employment: Moscow State Law University named after O.E. Kutafin (MSLA). <...> E-mail: nvoroninamgua@yandex.ru Annotation Background: In jurisprudence there is no comprehensive analysis of the concept of legal regulation in general theoretical and sectoral sense. <...> Cooperatives including agricultural are the backbone of economic (business) relations. <...> They combine in harmony the interests of society and the state and represent a contemporary model of social entrepreneurship. <...> Finding essential features and characteristics of the legal regulation of their activities plays a significant role in the efficient development of agricultural cooperatives. <...> Objective - to define the concept and content of "the model of legal regulation and establishment of agricultural cooperatives." Materials and methods: The comparative legal and formal-logical methods have been used. <...> Keywords: legal regulation, a model of legal regulation, legal means, agricultural cooperatives, model of legal regulation of establishment and activity of agricultural cooperatives. <...> Задача: в юридической науке отсутствует комплексный анализ понятия «правовое регулирование» как в общетеоретическом, так и отраслевом смыслах. <...> Важную роль в эффективном развитии сельскохозяйственных кооперативов играет определение существенных признаков и характеристик правового регулирования их деятельности. <...>