Privileges of State Service in Yakutia in 1780s–1840s

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ID22039499
AuthorsVasiliev Aisen D (0000-0002-4428-4856, The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), A D Vasilyev (Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume15
Issue4
Pages432-449
Publication date2026-05-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNauchnyi Dialog (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2225-756X • E-ISSN: 2227-1295
PublisherOOO Centr naucnyh i obrazovatelnyh proektov (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24224/2227-1295-2026-15-4-432-449
OpenAlexW7163172489
LanguageEN
References cited7

This article examines the issue of administrative integration of Yakutia into the Russian Empire during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The focus of the research is on the challenges of staffing the administrative apparatus in one of the most remote and climatically challenging regions of the empire. The study reveals that the imperial center implemented a targeted policy aimed at attracting and retaining officials, which included a range of benefits and privileges. The main instruments of this policy were guaranteed accelerated promotion, substantial one-time payments (such as travel and relocation allowances), and special pension regulations. Through specific examples of personnel appointments, it is shown that for many officials, service in Yakutia became a form of compensatory career advancement. The article argues that this policy represented a complex interplay of formal legislative norms and flexible personal decisions, which sometimes led to bureaucratic paradoxes. Nevertheless, the system proved to be generally effective. The author concludes that a stable corps of civil officials was established in Yakutia, consisting largely of appointees from other parts of the empire

Bureaucracy · Civil service · Legislature · Pension · Relocation · Staffing · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Innovations in Education and Learning Technologies · Soviet and Russian History

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