TY - JOUR AU - Dudka, Y. PY - 2019/12/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Activity of the Boundary Commissions in Sloboda Ukraine Governorate and Kharkiv Viceroyalty (the second half of the XVIII – the first half of the XIX century) JF - Zaporizhzhia Historical Review JA - ZHR VL - 1 IS - 53 SE - History of Ukraine DO - UR - https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/106 SP - 30-34 AB - The article deals with the process of formation and activity of the boundary commissions of the region on the basis of analysis of archival data of the specified period. In accordance with the decree issued by Catherine II on February 20, 1765, a «state boundary commission» was set up. The process of outlining general boundaries of the territory of Sloboda Ukraine was very difficult and long due to the lack of people with appropriate education and organizational, legal and everyday problems at local levels. The activity of surveyors in this area is not studied sufficiently enough, therefore the author tries to highlight all the processes and activities of the boundary commissions using archival sources such as district economic notes, examples of land disputes, official forms of province land surveyors, etc. It is the general boundary process that helps to understand the algorithm and regularities of integration of Sloboda Ukraine lands into the Russian Empire as one of the components of incorporation of the prosperous class of Cossacks to the noble status of the state. ER -