Abstract: The research subject is the issues of legal and organizational regulation of territorial organization of local governance according to the Federal Law No 131. The research object is the issues of territorial organization of local governance in the Russian Federation at the present time. The author analyzes the current practice of territorial organization of local governance in the context of the recent introduction of a new type of municipal entity – an inner city. The scientific literature analysis helps define the key problems of legal regulation of territorial organization of local governance. The main attention is given to the development of unified legislative approaches to municipal units. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, system approach, analogy, induction and modeling) and traditional methods of jurisprudence (formal-logical). The author concludes that at the present time, the exhaustive list of municipal entities, proposed by the federal law, requires further improvement of approaches to their territorial organization aimed at uniformity ensuring. The author reveals the necessity to ensure the uniformity of criteria and approaches to municipal entities. The author develops the proposals about the further improvement of the legislation, particularly, he proposes the rule for the local issues of a rural settlement regulation and defines the additional criterial of inner cities distinguishing.