CODIFICATION OF THE RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION: CURRENT SITUATION AND PROSPECTS Sagitov Sergey Marselevich, PhD at law. <...> Place of employment: Russian State University of justice. <...> E-mail: smsagitov@mail.ru Annotation: The article is devoted to the codification of Russian environmental legislation from the point of view of assessing the need for the development and adoption of the Environmental Code. <...> Analyzes the research of scientists, experts in the field of environmental protection, as well as the international experience of the codification of environmental law. <...> The theoretical and practical problems and prospects of codification of environmental legislation in the Russian Federation. <...>