ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL FACTOR OF TOWN FORMATION AS AN ELEMENT OF INTEGRATION OF THE SOUTHERN URALS INTO THE RUSSIAN STATE
The population of the national okra was almost not covered by urbanization processes during the period of establishment of cities, provinces, localities, counties, etc. solved the task of building a new society, able to integrate into the all-Russian space. In the middle of the XIX century. The peoples of the Southern Urals have noticed significant differences in the organization of self-government. According to the provincial reform of 1708 Ufim district was included in the Kazan province. However, its special status was attributed to the creation in 1715. Ufa province.In the process of implementing the subsequent reforms of local government in 1719 - 1720. The Kazan province was divided into four provinces: Kazan, Sviyazhsk, Penza and Ufa. Ufa province encompassed the Ural lands. In the 1730s.the further economic development of the territory of the region has intensified. This was brought to the attention of the organization of the Orenburg expedition, subordinated directly to the Senate. As a result of the provincial reforms of Catherine II December 23, 1781 was created Ufa governorship with the center in Ufa, Orenburg became a regional city. In May 1865 The Orenburg province was divided into the Orenburg and Ufa provinces. In 1924 - 1934. The Southern Urals included the territories of the Bashkir ASSR, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions. The territory encompassing Orenburg, Ufa, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, became an outpost of Russia on the south-eastern frontiers of the state, provided the possibility of colonization of separate lands and peoples.