To the history of state management of construction in Russia

Abstract

The article is a review of the history of development of system and legislative framework for the management of construction in the Russian Empire and the USSR during the XVIII-XX centuries. Sources of legal regulation of construction at the local level were documents of administrative nature (orders of governors and provincial authorities exercising supervision in the field of construction, provincial architects and engineers). These included permissive or prohibitive resolutions on specific applications of developers, registration and descriptive documents, governor's circulars of administrative content, etc. The competence of administrations in the field was determined by the relevant provisions of the Construction Charter. By the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century there appeared a variety of sources of town planning law - the normative acts of local selfgovernment bodies, newly created in the course of the Zemstvo reform and deep reorganization of the city Dumas. The legal system developed in the Russian Empire under which the state rigidly regulated all aspects of construction activity up to the layouts and facades of private buildings was generally in line with the new ideology; so, in the first years after the revolutionary events of 1917 the sphere of construction management underwent less radical changes as compared to other branches.