The article presents the mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations. The standing of scientific thought as to the mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations was found to be inconsistent with the contemporary requests (needs). Therefore, in this article: first, the author improved the definition of the mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations; second, the architectonics of this field type of the legal regulation mechanism was presented to civil law community. The mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations was defined as the set of civil legal tools (civil legal means, ways, and forms) the coordinated interaction of which makes it possible to regulate civil relations to protect the interests of entities subject to civil law the best possible way.
 It was determined that the mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations comprises the following elements: first, civil provisions, legal customs, deeds, and quasi deeds (civil arrangements); second, jural facts; third, civil relations; fourth, actions to ensure the exercise and protection of civil rights and fulfilment of obligations; fifth, legal consciousness; sixth, legal culture. The study is based on general scientific and special legal methods of cognition. The historical and legal method was used to describe the evolution of scholarly views toward the mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations. The formal and logical method contributed to the development of the author's definition of the mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations. Combining the systems analysis and structural and functional analysis enabled the author to determine the elements of the mechanism for legal regulation of civil relations. The legal and comparative method was applied to compare doctrinal ideas by the subject of research.