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The period under consideration was not marked by any significant changes in formation and functioning of the governorate officialdom. Heads of governorates and districts, with rare exceptions, had considerablet experience in the sphere of public service. During the war they worked “flat out” within the scope of their competence defined by law. Their administrative methods and styles of work varied. Their methods of adaptation to the war-time conditions were also different. In their everyday activities they rest on the relatively small governorate (district) offices suffering from the lack of staff. On the level of uyezd administration this period was marked by lower quality of employees. Later this new generation of uyezd officials joined the Soviet administrative apparatus. During the war administrative burdens of local police agencies and municipal self-government bodies increased. Along with their main duties the latter were responsible for troop housing, accommodation for refugees and prisoners of war, combating high prices etc. All this led to formation of a new type of officials along with the traditional bureaucracy. The new bureaucracy had some distinctive features: service to the people (society) and not to the Emperor; staff turnover on the basis of election (as opposed to appointment); the requirement of just elementary education for filling administrative positions. One of the most important consequences of the war was the municipal self-government bodies’ growing role in the socioeconomic and sociopolitical life of Russia and Siberia.