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The article deals with the experience of local self-government organisation in the Rostov region; it reveals the main trends in the development of local self-government institutions, changes in their qualitative characteristics from the moment of their emergence to the current state. The study of the historical material of the organisation and development of local self-government allows by means of revealing the peculiarities characteristic of the Rostov region to contribute to the display of the history of formation and development of public-power institutions in Russia, which should contribute to the further improvement of the institute of local self-government.