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"Rural council" redirects here. For British councils, see Rural Community Council. The Rural Community Councils ("RCCs" were established in rural England during the twentieth century to promote Rural community life

Selsoviet or selsovet (Russian: сельсове́т, short for се́льский сове́т, Russian pronunciation: [ˈsʲelʲskʲɪj sɐˈvʲɛt]; Ukrainian: сільрада, sil'rada, short for сі́льська рада), lit. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. rural soviet (council), was the administrative division of lowest level in rural areas in the Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was preserved as an administrative-territorial unit in some of the federal subjects of Russia or was replaced with municipal rural settlements (a unit of local government) in others. Russia is a Federation which consists of 83  subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a State.

A selsoviet is an administrative division of a district (raion). For the manufactured regenerated fiber see Rayon A raion (or rayon) (райо́н ra'jon rayon раён რაიონი

Larger localities, both rural and urban-type had settlement councils (поселко́вые сове́ты), which were of the same administrative level as selsoviets. Urban-type settlement (посёлок городско́го ти́па posyolok gorodskogo tipa; селище міського типу selyshche mis'koho typu;

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. The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (abbreviated as Byelorussian SSR or BSSR) (Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка Mahilyow Voblasts (Province or Mogilev Oblast (Магілёўская во́бласць Mahilyowskaya Voblasts; Могилёвская о́бласть Oblast (во́бласць oblast о́бласт oblast о́бласть област/ oblast; oblasť област о́бласть is a type of Administrative division Klimavichy (Клiмавiчы Климовичи Klimovichi; Łacinka: Klimavičy is a city in the western For the manufactured regenerated fiber see Rayon A raion (or rayon) (райо́н ra'jon rayon раён რაიონი Городешня (Gorodeshnya village)
ул. Ленинская (Lenin Street) (existed in virtually any sufficiently large settlement)
Смычкову Дмитрию (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 administration. A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. A selsoviet was headed by the Chairman of Selsoviet (председатель сельсовета).

Formally, a selsoviet was to be elected by a Rural Meeting (се́льский сход). However, the Chairman of the Selsoviet had to be appointed by higher administration.

For a considerable period of 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 the Russian Federation

Division into selsoviets as administrative-territorial units remained after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in many of the federal subjects of Russia. The Soviet Union 's collapse into independent nations began early in 1985 However, during the course of the municipal reform, they were replaced with municipal rural settlements, which serve as units of local self-government. During the period after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and before the municipal reform the terminology changed to reflect local specifics. The following are the names of the selsoviet-type units during that period of time, listed by federal subject:

In modern Russia, local self-administration is not included into the governmental system of the state. Stanitsa (стани́ца pronounced stah-nee-tsah; станиця stanytsia) is a village inside a Cossack host (voisko (ru казачье Tyva Republic (Респу́блика Тыва́ Respublika Tyva, rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə tɨˈva Тыва Республика Tyva Respublika) or Tuva Volost or volost' was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe. Leningrad Oblast (Ленингра́дская о́бласть Leningradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) Pskov Oblast (Пско́вская о́бласть Pskovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (government. A state is a political association with effective Sovereignty over a geographic Area and representing a Population. Each subnational entity of the Russian Federation has its own statute that defines the scope of local self-administration, including selsoviets (if applicable).

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