Abstract: This article is dedicated to the question of examination of the regional food security. The author believes that food safety issues in modern states must be addressed on the central (or federal), as well as the regional levels, which will allow strengthening the national food security and avoiding the situations of food deficit in the country or its uneven distribution across the separate region and municipalities. The work explores the negative and positive experience of the USSR in organization of food security, including through organization of the official reserve. The following scientific methods were applied during the course of this research: description, formal-logical, statistical, historical, modelling, comparative legal studies. The author deems that in the Russian Federation the questions of food security on the regional level are yet to be resolved in full measure; it is referred to the part of legislative determination and consolidation of the regional food security alongside within the framework of establishment of the regional food security system as a whole.