CREATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE APPARATUSOF THE GEORGIEVSKY DISTRICT OF THE TERSK REGION 1870 1875)
The article examines the creation of the administrative apparatus of the Georgievsky district. During the study period, transformations of administrative and judicial management bodies were carried out within the Tver Region. It was from this period that Kabardians and Balkars were within the framework of a single administrative and territorial administration with Russians and Cossacks. In modern historiography, issues related to administrative transformations aff ecting the ethnic territory of Kabardians and Balkars are of great scientifi c interest. The characteristic features of the transformative activity of the Russian administration in the Caucasus during the period under study were the combination of administrative and ethnic borders, diff erent peoples within the same administrative unit.