The administrative structure of border territories of Russia and the Qing empire in Transbaikalia and Northern Mongolia in XVIII - mid-XIX cent. (experience of comparative analysis)

Abstruct. The article presents a comparative analysis of the administrative structure in adjacent territories of the Russian Empire and the Chinese Qing Empire in Trans-Baikal and Northern Mongolia in XVIII - mid XIX century. Boundary separation in 1727 became an important stage of the integration process of the Baikal region into Russia, and adjacent North Mongolian regions into the Qing China. But in the Russian and Qing versions, the approach to solving the problems of the mentioned integration was based on completely different experience of state building and was formed under the influence of different, and sometimes polar opposite political theories and ideological concepts. The discrepancies between the Russian and Qing authorities in the ideas of rational management of adjacent border regions, it would seem, inevitably had to lead to significant differences in the construction of the administrative system on both sides of the border. At the same time, Russia in Transbaikalia and the Qing Empire in Northern Mongolia independently of each other and in their own interests carried out political and administrative reforms, in the fundamental features of which there are more similarities than differences.