Раскрывается роль реформ М.М. Сперанского в управлении Сибирью. Показана определенная специфика административного управления Сибирским регионом как особой геополитической единицей ввиду территории, плотности населения и других факторов. Раскрыта роль личности М.М. Сперанского как в проведении административных реформ, так и непосредственно в управлении Сибирью как неотъемлемой частью нашей страны.

The study of public administration of Siberia, which began in the mid-nineteenth century, is relevant in the modern world. Public administration in the Siberian region has its own features. The article shows that the system of state administration bodies in Siberia was built based on the experience of institutions that had proven viable in the central part of the country. The authors argue that the geographical and geopolitical position, population density, climatic conditions, natural resources and many other factors determine these features. The purpose of this article is to show the specificity of the administration of Siberia implemented by M. M. Speran-sky. The content of the article reflects that it was important to localize administration by organizing the self-government of various social categories in Siberian society. In the context of compact residence of separate population groups, it allowed to administratively influence them by appointment or approval of heads of self-governing communities. It is shown that the systems of Siberian public administration took into account the geographical features of the region. There were areas with an undeveloped system of communications, thus, there was a problem to localize administrative functions at various levels of local Siberian administration structures, which guaranteed control over the remote areas, but decreased the level and scope of the Governor-General's control and the Central government supervision over the activities of the Siberian administration. The article shows that the main trends in the development of public administration in Siberia are the centralization and localization of power in the region (aggregation and disaggregation) in the construction of a unified model of power relations characteristic of the Empire. The relations "center - region" were established, where central power belongs to the government and local, after the 1819 Revision, to the Main Department headed by the Governor-General of Siberia, and after 1822 the General-Governors of Western and Eastern Siberia. The Governor-General was M.M. Speran-sky. The authors stress the role of M.M. Speransky in the administration of Siberia. It was M.M. Speransky who developed the Ministerial reform. In the study, the authors relied on primary sources containing information about the Siberian reform, as well as on documentary sources containing a set of laws on the administration of the Siberian provinces. Thus, the article concludes that Siberia entered the world history because it joined the Russian state, which itself was going through a difficult evolution: from Muscovy to the Russian Empire. And it happened due to the reforms of M.M. Speransky.