Selsoviet

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Selsoviet or selsovet (Russian: сельсове́т, short for се́льский сове́т, Russian pronunciation: [ˈsʲelʲskʲɪj sɐˈvʲɛt]; Ukrainian: сільрада, sil'rada, short for сі́льська рада), lit. rural soviet (council), was the administrative division of lowest level in rural areas in the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was preserved as an administrative-territorial unit in some of the federal subjects of Russia or was replaced with municipal rural settlements (a unit of local government) in others.

A selsoviet is a rural administrative division of a district (raion).

Larger localities, both rural and urban-type had settlement councils (поселко́вые сове́ты, possovets), which were of the same administrative level as selsoviets.

Indication of the selsoviet was part of a rural postal address (notice the "upside-down" order of routing); for example:

БССР (Byelorussian SSR),
Могилевская область (Mogilev oblast),
Климовичский район (Klimovichi raion),
Савиничский сельсовет (Savinichi selsoviet),
д. Городешня (Gorodeshnya village)
ул. Ленинская (Lenin Street) (existed in virtually any sufficiently large settlement)
Смычкову Дмитрию (for Smychkov Dmitry) (quite often there were no street numbers)

The name coincides with the name of the local rural self-administration, Rural Soviet, a part of the Soviet system of administration. A selsoviet was headed by the Chairman of Selsoviet (председатель сельсовета).

Formally, a selsoviet was to be elected by a Rural Meeting (се́льский сход). However, the Chairman of the Selsoviet had to be appointed by higher administration.

For a considerable period of Soviet history passports of rural residents were stored in selsoviet offices, and people could not move outside their area of residence without the permission of selsoviet.

Selsoviets in the Russian Federation

Division into selsoviets as administrative-territorial units remained after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in many of the federal subjects of Russia. However, during the course of the municipal reform, they were replaced with municipal rural settlements, which serve as units of local self-government. During the period after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and before the municipal reform the terminology changed to reflect local specifics. The following are the names of the selsoviet-type units during that period of time, listed by federal subject:

  • Local administrations (ме́стные администра́ции, mestnyye administratsii)
    • Republic of Karelia: used together with rural administrations (see below), rural settlement councils (see below), and volost administrations (see below)
  • Naslegs (насле́ги, naslegi)
  • Okrugs (округа́, okruga)
  • Rural administrations (се́льские администра́ции, selskiye administratsii)
  • Rural municipal formations (се́льские муниципа́льные образова́ния, selskiye munitsipalnyye obrazovaniya)
  • Rural okrugs (се́льские округа́, selskiye okruga)
  • Rural representations (се́льские представи́тельства, selskiye predstavitelstva)
    • Murmansk Oblast: used together with rural territorial okrugs (see below)
  • (Rural) settlement councils (поселко́вые сове́ты, poselkovyye sovety)
    • Republic of Karelia: used together with local administrations (see above), rural administrations (see above), and volost administrations (see below)
    • Orenburg Oblast: used together with selsovets
    • Udmurt Republic: used together with selsovets
    • Vologda Oblast: used together with selsovets
  • Rural settlements (се́льские поселе́ния, selskiye poseleniya)
    • Chita Oblast: used together with rural administrations (see above), rural municipal formations (see above), rural okrugs (see above), and selsovets
  • Rural settlements administrations (администра́ции се́льских поселе́ний, administratsii selskikh poseleniy)
  • Rural territorial administrations (се́льские территориа́льные управле́ния, selskiye territorialnyye upravleniya)
    • Tomsk Oblast: used together with rural okrugs (see above), rural territorial okrugs (see below), selsovets, and territorial okrugs (see below)
  • Rural territorial formations (се́льские территориа́льные образова́ния, selskiye territorialnyye obrazovaniya)
    • Sakhalin Oblast: used together with rural administrations (see above), rural okrugs (see above), and selsovets
  • Rural territorial okrugs (се́льские территориа́льные округа́, selskiye territorialnyye okruga)
    • Murmansk Oblast: used together with rural representations (see above)
    • Tomsk Oblast: used together with rural okrugs (see above), rural territorial administrations (see above), selsovets, and territorial okrugs (see below)
  • Rural territories (се́льские террито́рии), selskiye territorii)
    • Tula Oblast: used together with rural administrations (see above), rural okrugs (see above), and volosts (see below)
  • Somons (сомо́ны, somony)
    • Buryat Republic: used together with selsovets; somons cover areas which are more ethnic in population.
  • Stanitsa okrugs (станичные округа, stanichnyye okruga)
    • Krasnodar Krai: used together with rural okrugs (see above) and selsovets
  • Sumons (сумо́ны, sumony)
  • Territorial okrugs (территориальные округа, territorialnyye okruga)
    • Kaluga Oblast: used together with rural okrugs (see above) and selsovets
    • Tomsk Oblast: used together with rural okrugs (see above), rural territorial administrations (see above), rural territorial okrugs (see above), and selsovets
  • Volost administrations (волостны́е управле́ния, volostnyye upravleniya)
    • Republic of Karelia: used together with local administrations (see above), rural administrations (see above), and rural settlement councils (see above)
  • Volosts (во́лости, volosti)
    • Leningrad Oblast
    • Pskov Oblast
    • Samara Oblast: used together with okrugs (see above), rural administrations (see above), and selsovets
    • Tula Oblast: used together with rural administrations (see above), rural okrugs (see above), and rural territories (see above)

In modern Russia, local self-administration is not included into the governmental system of the state. Each subnational entity of the Russian Federation has its own statute that defines the scope of local self-administration, including selsoviets (if applicable).

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