Ispravnik

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Ispravnik

district police chief in pre-revolutionary Russia. The post of ispravnik was instituted in 1775. Until 1862 he was called kapitan-ispravnik and was at the head of the rural (zem-stvo) court, a collegial body that had authority over the district. He was elected by the local dvorianstvo (nobility or gentry) for three years. Several changes were made in 1862: the ispravnik headed the district police administration, his authority became monocrotic and was extended to the district city as well, and he was appointed and removed by the governor.

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At the district level, specialists point to the district police officer (uezdnyi ispravnik) and the district marshal of the nobility as holding the reins of power.

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In Russia, moreover, bureaucratic control, to the degree that it existed at all, did not normally penetrate to the village level; it ended at the district town, where the land captain (zemskii ispravnik), assisted by two subordinates and a small military command of thirty-four men, administered rural districts of forty to sixty thousand inhabitants.

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