Business production of the head of the Center of the Caucasian line in the 30-50s. XIX century

This article is about the office documentation management of the Center of the Caucasian Line in the 30-50s. XIX century. The study is based on an analysis of materials from the administration of the Center for the Caucasian Line, higher and subordinate organizations. A meaningful and structural analysis of various groups of documents is carried out: circulars, instructions, reports, petitions, nominal, conduit and form lists, reports of the head of the Center for the Caucasian Line, addressed to the Headquarters of Troops on the Caucasian Line and the Black Sea Coast. Attention is drawn to the order of interaction between the head of the Center with the subordinate ones (the Provisional Kabardian court, bailiffs, heads of fortresses and fortifications) and higher institutions (the Headquarters of the troops on the Caucasian line and the Black Sea coast). The article touched upon the features of the formal interaction of the head of the Center for the Caucasian Line and local judicial and administrative control bodies with representatives of indigenous ethnic elites and dependent strata of the population. The article analyzes the features of implementing office work in the development of the judicial and administrative apparatus in the Central Caucasus, and an attempt is made to determine the place of the head of the Center of the Caucasian Line in the vertical of military-administrative control, which continued to build up in the Central Caucasus in the 30-50s. XIX century. The article analyzes the informative value of individual groups of documents in the study of different directions of the activities of the administration of the Center of the Caucasian Line. A conclusion is made about the practical significance of the materials studied and the prospects for their further study. A range of areas is outlined, for the study of which the identified groups of documents can be useful: the reconstruction of fortresses and fortifications that were part of the Center, the identification of the personnel of the management of the Center of the Caucasian Line, etc.

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