Implementation of Catherine II’s judicial reforms in the South Urals. Chelyabinsk primary district court

The peasant war under the leadership of E. Pugachev had shown the weakness of public administration of Empire. Having suppressed the riot, conducting extraordinary proceedings in the South Urals at the same time, the Empress started reforms. Russian judicial system was modified both in the center and in the provinces. The lowest legal institutions in districts (uyezd) were primary district courts. In Chelyabinsk such judicial body was elected in 1782 and functioned as the need arose. Its jurisdiction involved «supervision over adherence to order, discipline and moral laws». Chelyabinsk primary district court prior worked till the Alexander II’s reforms.