The article is devoted to some aspects of assessing the quality of the documents of territorial planning of regions and municipal areas of the steppe zone of European Russia. The main aim is a score-rating evaluation of quantitative and qualitative indicators, cognitive terminology analysis reflecting differences in regional schemes of territorial planning (STP). The results of the research show that the quality of the STP at the level of the regions of the Russian Federation is much higher than the quality of the STP of municipalities.