Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University1013410.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-1-61-65Research ArticleAssessment of local self-government reform with intercity division of Samara in 2015–2020 from perspective of its participants and the populationMatveevMikhail N.<p>Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor of the Department of Russian History</p>matveev-mn@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7434-5018Samara National Research University13042022281616529032022Copyright © 2022, Matveev M.N.2022<p>A reform of local self-government was initiated in Samara in 2015 through the creation of formally independent municipalities in the regional center – those were the intracity districts that had their own representative bodies, Councils of Deputies and the heads of intracity districts elected by them. This model was a part of federal legislation, but was only implemented in three cities of Russia – Chelyabinsk, Makhachkala and Samara. The rest of the subjects of the Federation refused it. Thus, the implementation of the reform was, in fact, an experiment. In 2019–2020, before the duties of the elected first convocation Councils of Deputies of the Samara inner-city districts were completed, the author, who at that time was the chairman of the Committee of Local Self-Government of the Samara State Duma, initiated an analysis of the results of the reform, which gave a lot of factual material. One of the areas of analysis was an anonymous survey of deputies of Samara district councils, heads of territorial public self-government (TPS) and a sociological survey of the population of Samara about the effectiveness of the created model of local self-government. It became obvious that the reform did not achieve its declared goals – bringing authorities closer to the people. The survey results are presented in this publication.</p>местное самоуправлениереформавнутригородское делениеСамараlocal self-governmentreformintracity divisionSamara[Matveev 2020 – Matveev M.N. (2020) On the experience of regulating the issues of delimitation of powers of local self-government bodies of the city district of Samara and intracity districts in 2015–2019. In: Balytnikov V.V. (Ed.) Unity of public authority in modern society: collection of works of the Center for Research on Problems of Territorial Administration and Self-Government. Moscow: IIU MGOU, 160 p.; pp. 44–51. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44908612&pff=1. (In Russ.)][Message 2013 – Message of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly as of December 12, 2013. Rossiiskaya gazeta, December 13. Available at: http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/38057. (In Russ.)][State Duma Collection 2019 – Collection of materials of the main events held by the State Duma Committee on the federal structure and issues of local self-government in the seventh convocation. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Gosudarstvennoi Dumy, 320 p. Available at: http://komitet4.km.duma.gov.ru/upload/site28/23_Sbornik_mat-lov_po_samoupravleniyu_V_PEChAT.pdf. (In Russ.)][Tabolin 2015 – Tabolin V.V. (2015) Large cities in the light of reforms of the legislation on local self-government. Constitutional and Municipal Law, no. 2, pp. 65–68. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=22981542. (In Russ.)]