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The article objective is to analyze the administrative initiatives and proposals prepared by Orenburg civil governors and presented to the supreme power in the first half of the XIX century. The solution of this research problem will help to reveal fully the administrative mechanisms of the Orenburg Province, where a special model of power functioned based on the interaction of the military and civil governorship institutions. The article subject field involves the content analysis of proposals and initiatives of Orenburg civil governors, features of their consideration and implementation. The work source base are legislative acts; paperwork materials: presentations and reports of Orenburg civil governors to the military governors, the Minister of Internal Affairs, annual all-subject reports of the chiefs on the situation in the Province, results of a review of provincial and county government offices, official correspondence. The analysis made it possible to conclude that the proposals and initiatives of Orenburg civil governors in the first half of the XIX century were determined by their competence and degree of power, affecting primarily the institutions of local government subordinate to them - the provincial government, the office, the police, and since 1842 - all provincial institutions. According to the procedure established by law, they were sent to the military governor for consideration, then - to the Committee of Ministers, and to the Emperor. Unlike the projects of Orenburg military governors, which were of a comprehensive, large-scale nature, affecting the military, civilian, border parts in the region, which corresponded to the subjects of their jurisdiction, proposals of the civil governors provided only individual measures to improve the local government system. In those cases when the representations of Orenburg civil governors were initiated by the government or the military governor, they concerned the order of work, the states of government offices. A number of notes and projects of Orenburg Province heads arose as results of a direct appeal to the government to clarify the opinion of the governors about the upcoming reforms, changes in states. The civil governors’ proposals, which were drawn up on their own initiative, concerned minor economic issues - improving the fire station, constructing new buildings for hospitals, almshouses. An analysis of the civil governor proposals allows us to conclude that in the administrative space of the state there was a constant dialogue between the central and regional authorities in the first half of the XIX century.