Abstract
The Institute of Civil Capacity of Minors is a long-standing subject of scientific knowledge. Eachnew stage of social development affects the definition by national legislation of the legal status of minorparticipants in civil turnover, expressed in the general norms of the Civil Code on individuals. The institution of the legal capacity of minors at the present stage of development has undergone, although not significant,transformations. A certain stage of the economic, social and legal development of modern society contributedto the legislative consolidation of the institute of emancipation, the right to engage in entrepreneurial activity,the right of minors to be members of cooperatives, previously unknown to the Russian legal order. Rapidevolution obliges to improve the legal infrastructure designed to provide adequate legal opportunities forminors to the dictates of time.