The content of the concepts of “commercial”, “commerce” and “merchant” and their relationship with related legal structures in the domestic civil doctrine and regulatory legal acts

In the Russian legal literature, the terms “commercial”, “commerce” and “merchant” are quite often used as characteristics of economic, entrepreneurial, commercial or other economic activity. At the same time, the content of these concepts is not clearly defined. Unfortunately, Russian laws also do not contain the necessary information for unambiguous theoretical conclusions. The relationship of these categories with related concepts and the order of their definition are still debatable. The emergence of the phenomenon of e-commerce takes this discussion to a new level and makes this area of scientific research very relevant. This work is aimed at defining and systematizing the main categories of Russian commercial law.