Municipal formation as a form of legitimation of local community
In the article interrelations between municipal formation and local community are revealed; extent of scrutiny of those phenomena in the science of municipal law is estimated; different approaches of scholars to correlation of such phenomena as municipal formation and local community are analyzed. The author believes that municipal formation primary legitimates local community while establishing municipal formation, and also secondary on continuing basis - when it represents local community in legal relations on behalf of its bodies and officials.