Александров Артём Романович

The article presents a retrospective analysis of local government in the system of separation of public power in Russia from the era of the old Russian state to the state of Affairs in the Russian Federation. The role of local self-government has varied greatly and depended on many factors in different historical periods.

In recent years, Russia has seen an active process of forming a single-level system of local self-government in the territory of the country. Instead of municipal districts, rural settlements, formed a single urban district. Pioneers in this process is the government of the Moscow region.