The phenomenon of persistence in the implementation of the provincial reform of Peter I in the Ural-Siberian region
The relevance of the topic of this study is due to the fact that in the era of Peter the Great, for the first time in Russia, an ordered system of administrative-territorial division was created, the basic principles of which have survived to this day. According to the "Decree on the establishment of provinces and on the schedule of cities for them" of December 18, 1708, the urban system was put in the basis of the division into provinces.Due to the small number of cities and the uncertainty of the borders in the east of the country, the Kazan and Siberian provinces turned out to be the most extended in area. Subsequently, as the administrative functions of other urban settlements developed, the territories of these provinces were repeatedly redrawn until the second half of the 19th century.