The relevance of research topic is due to the eternal discussion around the concept of justice in many areas: philosophy, politics, morality, law. The latter is considered by us in the context of land law as one of the central branches of the legal system of Russia. We consider the latter in the context of land law as one of the central branches of Russian legal system. The choice of the subject is explained by the fact that the land as a valuable resource has always been the basis of the life of the Russian people – people who lived centuries ago even deified it, called it the mother of all living things, performed rituals of veneration of the land. The methodological basis of research is analysis and synthesis, with the help of which we manage to study and briefly describe the most important events, treatises, regulations, historical periods associated with the development of the concept of justice in legal thought, the justice principle in Russian land law; a historical method that allowed us to trace the evolution in time and space of the subject under study. During the study of the topic, special attention is paid to the relation of the development of the concept of “justice” in land law from the moment of the formation of Russia as a state to the present day. Having studied the presented subject, we briefly describe the ways of taking root in the Russian land legislation of the category “justice”.