The article concerns the institution of suspension the execution by the supervisory authority of a resolution or order of a body of a territorial self-government unit, in particular, its legal nature, the legal effects it causes and the possibility of qualifying this form of administrative action as an act of supervision of the activities of territorial self-government units, and in consequence — the admissibility of control by an administrative court, which is important from the point of view of the protection of the independence of a territorial self-government unit.