The adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993 created such a legal reality, where the necessity of theoretical analysis of legal institutes both previously existing and the new ones grew up. One of such institutes could be considered as a set of rules, which governs the revision, amendment and changes of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, enshrined in ninth Chapter called «Constitutional amendments and the revision of the Constitution». This article is devoted to the study of provisions in terms of the possibility to preserve the current constitution