Introduction of volost administration in Buryatia (the end of XIX - beginning of the XX centuries)
The article is dedicated to volost reform in Buryatia at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries within history of administrative management by the Russian state Buryatia. The purpose of the work is an analysis of historical events in the region connected with the national program of tsarism concerning the subordination to all-Russian country laws by settled natives. The methodology of research is connected with the analysis of the actual material received by studying of the main acts of that time, archival materials and scientific literature. The author comes to a conclusion: with the introduction of the volost reform the administrative structure of the Buryats, based on the organization by the count Speransky, enacted almost eighty years ago, has been abrogated. During this time local governments - Steppe dumas - managed to make a considerable improvement of living conditions of indigenous people of the region. Carrying out volost reform meant destruction of self-government of indigenous people of the region which existed throughout almost all the XIX century represented by the Buryat Steppe dumas.