Аннотация:The article explores the problem of legal coverage for quality improvement of the Russian state administration. The main conclusions of the research are as follows: 1) the low quality of the current Russian state administration is to a great extent related not only to the shortcomings of certain regulatory legal acts, but also in general to the lack of consistency in its legal regulation; 2) consistency of legal regulation of the Russian state administration can be ensured through drafting and adoption of the federal law on the basics of state administration. The author provides suggestions on the concept of the basic, backbone federal law “On the Basics of State Administration in the Russian Federation”. The article was written following the results of the research work “Analysis of completeness and sufficiency of legal regulation of the state administration process and concept development for the federal law on state administration in the Russian Federation”, executed by the Center of State Administration Technologies with the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration as part of the RANEPA’s government task in 2014.