The paper attempts to classify the restrictions stipulated for the public servants in the Russia Federation. The restrictions on the federal civil service, on military service, on other types of civil, on municipal service are analyzed. While the present legislation provides a ramified system of restrictions for public servants, the author offers various criteria to divide these restrictions into several groups. The research of restrictions for public servants in the context of their diversity enables to define the restrictions properties, their regular relationship with the specifics of some kinds of public service and demonstrates their important place in the legal status structure of the public servants together with its basic elements, like rights and duties. It should be noted that the restriction classification will contribute to a system approach for exploring imperative principles of the public service. The paper makes a conclusion about a predominantly administrative (public law) nature of both restrictions and legal status of the public servants in general and about an intrinsic unity of this status independently on the type of a public service.