At present, the role of trade organizers in the conditions of a rapidly changing economic situation, global financial crises, and the rapid development of market relations is very important and significant. First of all, in the support of entrepreneurship, the development of trade relations, the promotion of local goods inside the country and abroad, the creation of conditions for the organization and development of trade in general. In this publication, the author analyzes the trade turnover of the Soviet and current periods, as a result of which the 30 Вестник Инновационного Евразийского университета. 2018. № 2 ISSN 1729-536X conclusion follows that, in addition to the state, other subjects of commodity circulation are also needed to create conditions for the development of trade. They were the organizers of trade. However, in the publication a significant place is given to the legal personality of special subjects of trade, the characteristics of the main types and functions of each of them, tasks and goals, as well as the problems of organizers of trade.