Humanities & Social Sciences 12 (2016 9) 3001-3014 ~ ~ ~ УДК 930:[351:332.122(470)] State Administration in the Northern Territories and Control over Their Development in Russian Historiography Svetlana G. Kovalenkoa a b and Olga I. Shestakb * Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far-East FEB of the RAS 89 Pushkinskaia Str., Vladivostok, 690095, Russia Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service 41 Gogolia Str., Vladivostok, 690014, Russia Received 14.03.2016, received in revised form 20.07.2016, accepted 27.10.2016 The article outlines the Russian historiography of the Russian Empire, Soviet, and today’s periods dealing with the issues of the state administration in the northern area territories of Russia. <...> The survey of the Russian Empire historiography reveals that, before 1917, the issues were viewed in the context of the general political and socio-economic trends of Russian history as well as that of the geographical study of outlying lands and the Arctic seas. <...> They discussed mainly if it were worthwhile to involve the territories of the Extreme North in the sphere of influence of the regular Russian state. <...> Soviet historiography concentrated mainly on the socio-economic development of the territories of the Extreme North, especially in the 1930s and in the 1970s-80s. <...> However, the matter was given consideration primarily in order to ground the focal development within the framework of the development of territorial production complexes and the Northern Sea Route. <...> The works of the current period mainly deal with the issues of the efficiency of the state control over the current socio-economic development of the Arctic area. <...> Besides, the new methods appearing nowadays, the active use of the frontier modernisation theory, and the introduction of the data of various disciplines into the study enables one to bring research works to a new level. <...> However, lacking is a complex study of the systems and structures of the state administration in the northern area territories and the state control over their development at different times of Russian history. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: ostina@list.ru; olga.shestak@vvsu.ru – 3001 – Svetlana G. Kovalenko, Olga I. Shestak. <...> As a matter of fact, any territory within the Russian state may be termed ‘frontier one’ at a certain stage of its formation which means a boundary between the country itself and other lands. <...> Between 1553 and the late 18th territory of Russia enlarged from 2.8 to 5.4 square km. Under the Romanovs, 10 million <...>