The article examines the role of the Irkutsk City Council (Municipal Duma) in the course of the district councils (zemstvo) extension in Siberia. The article focuses on the fact that at the beginning of the XX c. Duma supported such governmental initiatives and became the center of discussion of this question. In 1905 I. I. Popov the Municipal Duma deputy even wrote the project in order togive the examplar of zemstvo in Siberia. During the First World War the Municipal Duma formed the commission to emplement causes for institution of petition to establish the district councils in Eastern Siberia.

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