MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER BY THE MUNICIPAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
OF PENZA PROVINCE IN LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES

Borisov Andrey Viktorovich. Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, sub-department of foreign languages and foreign language teaching technique, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), andrea574@mail.ru

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10.21685/2072-3024-2016-2-6

Background. In contemporary Russia, local self-governments form an essential part of government, and the concept itself gets new understanding. Nowadays it is of great importance to research the history of local self-governing of the post-reform period, when social institutes just began joining the government system. The aim of the research is to analyze the work of municipal social institutes of Middle Volga region in terms of public order maintenance and security, and their interaction with local self-governments and urban forces.
Materials and methods. To achieve the research aim we used the documents from the Penza Region State Archive, Ulyanovsk Region State Archive, as well as local self-governments’ session journals, containing written data of important mu-nicipal issues. The research is based on the principles of historicism and objective-ness, as well as the scientific analysis of factual data and the comparative method.
Results. The competence of local self-governments and urban forces was re-searched. The indefinite status of the police regarding local slef-governemnts was ascertained. The interaction of the municipal dumas and the police in terms of public order maintenance was analyzed.
Conclusions. Cooperative actions of local administrations and local slef-governments in terms of solving essential municipal problems led to positive results. In terms of public order maintenance and security, local self-governments actively cooperated with the head of police; together they issued compulsory regulations for citizens. Very often governors asked municipal dumas to increase the number of policemen, which was a result of the city growth and an increase of the number of citizens. In general, their collaboration in terms of security can be characterized by mutual understanding and absence of conflict situations.

municipal duma, police provision, police brigade.

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