Аннотация:Main changes of administrative-territorial division of Russia in the
XX century, the reasons, which have caused them and also factors, are reviewed:
growth of number of administrative-territorial bodies during the
period of the Russian Empire; changes, made by Provisional government;
radical reform of administrative-territorial division of the RSFSR in 1929,
new increase in quantity of administrative and territorial units in the 1930–
1940th years; the project of introduction the system of «sovnarhoses» (regional
economic councils) in the second half of the 1950th; as well as changes, that
took place during the Post-Soviet period. The following fact is revealed: the
stronger were the influence of administrative facilities, and the related fiscal
and police-administrative goals, the grid of administrative-territorial division
became more fractional; liberal tendencies and taking into consideration of
objective factors in territorial division lead to integration of administrativeterritorial
division system.