The article is devoted to actualization of legal regulation of moral harm compensation relations in the context of systematization of problems of their legislative regulation In order to draw the directions of actualization of the legal regulation of the institute of moral harm compensation, the article examines, summarizes (classifies) some problems of the legal regulation of relations involving moral damage compensation that have been repeatedly discussed and analyzed by domestic civil law scholars, the ways to deal with certain problems have also been examined. Such problems traditionally include: unjustified restriction of the methods of moral harm compensation, lack of a full and adequate definition of moral harm, certain conflicts of terminology, lack of both a complete list of criteria for determining the amount of compensation for moral harm and methods of determining the amount of the compensation for moral harm. Systematization of problems of legal regulation of compensation awarded for moral harm made it possible to justify and isolate individual directions of actualization of the legal regulation of the institution in question: 1) improvement of a conceptual apparatus of the institute of moral harm compensation; 2) improvement of the legal regulation of individualization and differentiation of moral harm compensation; 3) consolidation of methodology for determining the amount of moral harm compensation in legislation.