Mossoviet
{{Short description|City council in Moscow (1917–1993)}}
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{{Infobox Parliament
| name = Moscow City Council
| native_name = Московский городской совет
| coa_pic = Coat of Arms of Moscow (Soviet).svg
| coa_res = 110px
| legislature = City council
| house_type = Unicameral
| foundation =
| preceded_by = Moscow City Duma
| succeeded_by = Moscow City Duma
| established = {{start date and age|df=y|14 November 1917}}
| disbanded = {{start date and age|df=y|7 October 1993}}
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| term_length = 5 years
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| last_election1 = 1990
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| meeting_place = Mossoviet Building
| session_room = File:Tverskaya13 Moscow 06-2015.jpg
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The Moscow City Council ({{langx|ru|Московский городской совет}}) in short Mossoviet ({{langx|ru|Моссовет|link=no}}), an abbreviation of Moscow Soviet ({{langx|ru|Московский Совет|Moskovskiy Sovet|link=no}}), was established following the February Revolution {{OldStyleDateNY|8–16 March 1917|{{small|23 Feb. – 3 Mar.}}}}. Initially it was a parallel, shadow city administration of Moscow, Russia run by left-wing parties. Following the October Revolution it became the city administration of Moscow throughout the Soviet period (1918–1991).
History
=Initial period=
The first meeting of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ Deputies occurred on 1 March 1917. The meeting was initially attended by 52 delegates from various factories, cooperative societies and trade unions. However, when the meeting was reconvened in the evening after a short adjournment, the meeting had swollen to over six hundred delegates. An executive committee of 44 members was created under the leadership of Lev Khinchuk a member of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.{{cite web |title=Formation of the Soviets |url=http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/formation-of-the-soviets/ |website=Seventeen Moments in Soviet History |publisher=Macalester College and Michigan State University |access-date=17 January 2021 |date=17 June 2015}}
=After the Bolshevik seizure of power=
File:Ispolkom Mossoveta.jpg, 5) Piskarev, 6) Salnikov, 7) Klestov 8) Borshevsky, 9) Feldman, 10) Kanygin, 11) Smidovich, 12) Gorkunov, 13) Sakharov, 14) Horns, 15) Lisitsin, 16) Radzivils, 17) Viktor Nogin 18) Pevunov. Standing (from left to right): 1) Temkina, 2) Ilyushin, 3) Merkulov, 4) Rykov, 5) Zamoryonov, 6) Budzinsky, 7) Obukh, 8) Smirnov, 9) Savin, 10) Semashko, 11) Isaev, 12) Voznesensky, 13) Burovtsev, 14) Belarusians, 15) Zheltov, 16) Bulochninov, 17) Fonchenko]]
Between 1918 and 1941, these two administrations were perceived as two distinct, although related, bodies. The Mossovet (Imeni Mossoveta) title was appended to the names of different institutions as an honorary title ("in the name of Mossovet") referring to 1917 events, i.e.
- Mossovet Theater (established 1924, and still operates under this name)
or as a sign of administrative control ("established by Mossovet") by the current administration, i.e.
- Mossovet Architectural Workshops (established 1932)
- Mossovet Kindergarten could mean a corporate kindergarten for City Hall staff, or any public kindergarten managed by the City
Designed in 1780s by Matvey Kazakov, it was shorn off its wings in 1939 and moved fourteen meters backward on rollers. By 1945 it was jacked up a storey, joined to a smaller house built in 1930s, sandwiched between new ground and attic floors, and fitted with a high-arched portico.{{cite book|last=Colton|first=Timothy J.|author1-link=Timothy Colton|title=Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis|year=1995|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=327}}
References
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Category:1917 establishments in Russia
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Category:20th century in Moscow
Category:Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Category:Organizations of the Russian Revolution