The presented article highlights the problems identified during the study of such a new phenomenon in the urban planning sphere as rural agglomerations of the Russian Federation on the example of the Leningrad region, as a set of intermunicipal urban planning relationships within one or more municipal districts of the Leningrad region, as well as the need to take into account these relationships, taking into account the peculiarities of the cultural landscape, as a set of accumulated valuable agricultural territories, combined with the experience of industrial, cultural and urban development operation of these territories.

Keywords: rural agglomeration, cultural landscape, small urban agglomeration, qualimetric landscape method