The purpose of the article is to define the concept and features of administrative and legal means of legal regu-lation of corruption prevention. 
 It is substantiated that the administrative and legal means of preventing corruption is an integral part of legal reg-ulation. The use of these funds is conditioned by the goals of preventing corruption, which are divided into strategic and tactical. The essence of administrative and legal means of preventing corruption is considered in accordance with the regulatory, institutional, instrumental, normative, managerial, activity and state-centered approaches. Ac-cording to the regulatory aspect, administrative and legal means of preventing corruption are understood as a means of streamlining public relations and a way for the subjects of anti-corruption activities to exercise their powers. In the institutional aspect, these means should be understood as a set of bodies and their officials determined by legis-lative and subordinate legal acts, whose powers include the prevention of corruption, as well as the competence of these entities. In the instrumental aspect, administrative and legal means of preventing corruption are technologi-cally legal techniques and methods of implementing administrative and legal regulation in the studied area, as well as algorithms for the application of these techniques and methods. In the normative aspect, the investigated means represent a hierarchically structured set of legislative and subordinate legal acts, including international legal acts that have been ratified, approved or adopted in accordance with the established procedure. In the managerial aspect, administrative and legal means of preventing corruption are a set of managerial actions and decisions of a nation-wide, sectoral and intradepartmental nature aimed at creating organizational, personnel, financial, material and other conditions for the effective prevention of corruption by the subjects of this activity. In the activity aspect, the investigated means represent a set of legal and extra-legal actions of the subjects of preventing corruption, aimed at achieving the goals and objectives set in the anti-corruption program documents in accordance with the established deadlines and stages. The state-centered aspect encompasses a set of ways to preserve the interests of the state, which include preventing corruption in comparison with the interests of a number of officials to preserve their right to privacy of information about their property, income and expenses, to combine some positions and professions, and the like.The set of administrative and legal means, united by specific goals of law enforcement and directed by the will of the subject of legal relations, is an organic part of administrative and legal regulation. However, the phenomenon of administrative-legal regulation is not limited to administrative-legal means, its integral parts are also the purpose, principles, methods, and also other elements that are distinguished by various researchers.