Shevchenko A. Municipal and legal status of the territorial community in Ukraine and foreign countries

The thesis is devoted to the research of different approaches regarding the clarification of the nature and essence of this phenomen as the territorial community, its organizational-structural and subject-functional characteristics also identified features of the status and personality of the territorial community in the context of existing domestic and foreign research in this field. Noted that the variety of approaches to the name of a territorial community (commune, community, local community, local community, association of residents, etc.) is determined by the following factors: historical and cultural traditions of a state or part of it; religious and linguistic features of certain territories; acts of legislation, etc.