Conquest of the highlanders in the first half of the 19th century as one of the stages of Ossetia's accession to Russia

The paper deals with the processes of state administration of national regions and administrative and territorial transformations in this regard. The study is to clarify a set of issues describing the most eventful and decision-making period in the history of the Russian state. A retrospective scientific analysis of the state policy on the creation of a centralized control system at turning points is presented. The study describes the integration of mountain peoples into the all-Russian society and the nature of interethnic relations in the regions as well as identifies interethnic problems and contradictions among the highlanders. A comparative analysis of the control system and institutional transformations in various areas of the region determines the specific characteristics of social processes and emphasizes the historical features of individual territories in the regional environment that have affected the nature of power and their institutional arrangements.