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Larger settlements, both rural and urban had settlement councils (поселко́вые сове́ты), which were of the same administative level as selsoviets.

Indication of the selsoviet was part of a rural postal address (notice the "upside-down" order of routing); for example:

БССР ( Byelorussian SSR),

Могилевская область ( Mogilev oblast),

Климовичский район ( Klimovichi raion),

Савиничский сельсовет (Savinichi selsoviet),

д. Городешня (Gorodeshnya village)

Lenin Street (existed in virtually any sufficiently large settlement)

for Smychkov Dmitry (quite often there were no street numbers)

The name coincides with the name of the local rural self-administration, Rural Soviet, a part of the Soviet system of aministration. A selsoviet was headed by the Chairman of Selsoviet (председатель сельсовета).

Formally, a selsoviet is to be elected by a Rural Meeting (сельский сход). However since certain moment the Chairmain of the Selsoviet had to be appointed by higher administration.

For a considerable time period of the Soviet history passports of rural residents were stored in selsoviet offices, and people could not move outside their area of residence without the permission of selsoviet.

Selsoviets in Russian Federation

Subdivision into selsoviets largely remained after the collapse of the Soviet Union. However in many places the terminology changed, to reflect national specifics (the list may be incomplete):

• Adygeya—rural okrugs (сельские округа).
• Buryatia—selsovets are used together with somon s (сомоны). Both types are on the same administrative level, with somons covering areas which are more ethnic in population.
• Kalmykia & Karachay-CherkessiaThe Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia ( Russian: , or, less formal, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). The direct transliteration of the republic's name is Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika or Karachayevo-Cherkessiya''. Geography—rural municipalities (сельские муниципальные образования).
• Republic of KareliaFor other uses of Karelia see Karelia (disambiguation). The Republic of Karelia ( Russian: ; Karelian: Karjalan Tazavalla) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). The direct transliteration of the republic's name is Respublika Kareliy—rural administrations (сельские администрации)
• North Ossetia-AlaniaThis article is currently being expanded and converted over to the new format proposed at WikiProject Russian federal subjects. Please feel free to add or edit anything on this page to help in the conversion process. The Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (—rural settlements administrations (администрации сельских поселений).
• Sakha (Yakutia)Sakha Republic ( Russian: , Respublika Sakha (Yakutia) Yakut: Sakha is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). It is located in the Far Eastern Federal District. Geography Sakha stretches to the Henrietta Islands in the far north and is—naslegs (наслеги)

In modern Russian Federation, local self-administration is not included into the governmentA government is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a certain territory. There are several definitions on what exactly constitutes a government. The government has been defined as the dominant decision-making arm (the policy elal system of the stateThis article discusses states as sovereign political entities. For other meanings, see state (disambiguation). In international law and international relations, a state is a political entity possessing sovereignty, i. not being subject to any higher polit. Each subnational entity of Russian Federation has its own statute that defines the scope of local self-administration, including selsoviets (if applicable).