The economic-legal aspect of Russian bank system formation process and its specific features in comparison with bank systems of the USA, Germany and France is considered in the article. Influence of Russian bank system becoming on similar process in the countries of the near abroad is analyzed. The author offers criteria for division of Russian bank system formation stages, allowing to do conclusions about the further ways of Russian bank system development and development of the national financial system at whole.

The work examines the problem of legal guaranteeing state power financial bodies system functioning in Russia. There is offered the theory of indirect state power legal relations. The application of this theory can facilitate the formation of national system of financial organs as a complete structure which provides the effective enforcement of single state financial policy maintaining the necessary level of state power financial bodies independence from different branches of power. There is considered the financial system functioning through administrative legal status of state power financial bodies as subjects of legal relations and as the legal means providing management of this system taking into consideration one of the most important financial system tasks, i.e., transformations of free financial resources into investment capital.