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The municipal divisions in Russia, also called municipal formations (Russian: муниципальные образования, munitsipalnye obrazovaniya), are territorial divisions of the Russian Federation which are formally granted the authority to manage local affairs through local self-government.[2] As of January 1, 2020, there are 20,846 municipal divisions in Russia, including 1,673 municipal districts, 635 urban okrugs, and 33 municipal okrugs.[1]
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Municipal divisions of Russia as of January 1, 2020[1] | |
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Municipal division | Number |
Municipal districts | 1,673 |
Municipal okrugs | 33 |
Urban okrugs | 635 |
Intra-urban municipalities, including: Intra-urban territories of a federal city Urban okrugs with inner-city divisions Intra-urban divisions | 286 267 3 19 |
Rural settlements | 16,821 |
Urban settlements | 1,398 |
Total | 20,846 |
According to the law, the units of municipal division (called municipal formations) are as follows:[3]
In the course of the Russian municipal reform of 2004–2005, all federal subjects of Russia streamlined the structures of local self-government, which is guaranteed by the Constitution of Russia. The reform mandated that each federal subject have a unified structure of municipal government bodies by January 1, 2005, and a law enforcing the reform provisions went into effect on January 1, 2006. Since 2005, for statistical and tax purposes, all municipal formations are assigned codes according to the Russian Classification of Territories of Municipal Formations , abbreviated in Russian as ОКТМО.
Federal legislation introduced on May 27, 2014, added the territorial units of urban okrug with intra-urban divisions and their constituent divisions (Intra-urban district).[5]
Additional federal legislation introduced on May 1, 2019, added the territorial unit of municipal okrug.[6] The purpose of the creation of municipal okrugs was to transition the two-tier system of the municipal districts to a single-tier system of the municipal okrugs, thereby reducing the number of local governments and thus reducing the cost of local government on the state.[7] This legislation also set standards for the incorporation of new urban okrugs and the change in status of existing ones. In urban okrugs, at least two-thirds of the population must live in the urban settlement(s) within, and the population density must be five times the national average.[7][8] Existing urban okrugs which do not meet the requirements must be reincorporated as municipal okrgus by 2025.[7] The change was implemented out of concern that some small towns had been incorporated as urban okrugs and given all of the taxing powers and municipal service standards of much larger cities, which in the words of State Duma deputy Viktor Kidyaev turn "villagers into townspeople."[7]
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