Charter of St. Petersburg

The charter of St. Petersburg was developed and adopted by deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the first convocation (1994-1998). The document was adopted by a repeat vote by a qualified majority with a minimum required number of votes - 34 out of 50 (8 against and 3 abstained) ^[1] . Since the Charter in this edition significantly infringed on the powers of the Governor of St. Petersburg and fixed a certain imbalance in favor of the legislative branch of power ^[2] , the current governor V. A. Yakovlev refused to sign it, which led to a serious political crisis. As a result of negotiations and compromise, on January 28, 1998, a whole package of amendments was adopted in favor of the executive branch ^[1] .

The Charter of St. Petersburg consists of the Preamble and 12 chapters:

• Chapter I. General Provisions
• Chapter II The subjects of St. Petersburg
• Chapter III. Basics of the territorial structure of St. Petersburg
• Chapter IV Fundamentals of the organization of state power in St. Petersburg
• Chapter V. Legislative power of St. Petersburg
• Chapter VI. Administration of St. Petersburg
• Chapter VII. Judicial branch of St. Petersburg
• Chapter VIII. Interaction of public authorities of St. Petersburg
• Chapter IX. The Basics of Local Government in St. Petersburg
• Chapter X. Participation of residents of St. Petersburg in the exercise of power
• Chapter xi. Property of St. Petersburg
• Chapter XII. Final and transitional provisions ^[3]

• Charter of St. Petersburg (as amended) (neopr.) . Website of the Constitution of the Russian Federation . Date of treatment January 6, 2012. Archived May 18, 2012.

• Drabkina T. Political crisis in connection with the adoption of the charter of St. Petersburg // Political monitoring. 1998. No. 1.
• Zinoviev A.V. Charter of St. Petersburg: Political and Legal Analysis // Jurisprudence. 1998. No. 3. - S. 36-40.

• Governor of St. Petersburg
• Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
• Statutory Court of St. Petersburg