Urban self-government is the right of a city’s citizens, within certain powers, to manage matters of the urban economy, understood as a set of interests common to all citizens of a given city. In Russia, it existed from 1870 to 1917. Elected bodies of urban self-government, collectively called the “urban public administration,” were granted the right to administer the urban economy. The scope of activity of the urban public administration under the Statute of 1870 and the Statute of 1892 that replaced it included: city finances, municipal property, public improvements (streets, bridges, roadways, sidewalks, boulevards, squares, lighting, water supply, sewerage, transport, street watering, markets, shopping arcades, piers, etc.), sanitary conditions and public health, public education, charitable institutions, fire services, food supply for residents, and care for the needs of industrial enterprises.
A city in southwestern Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The largest city of the historical region of Kurzeme, the third-largest city in Latvia after Riga and Daugavpils, an important industrial center and an ice-free port, originally a naval base of the Russian fleet.
Libava is the old name of the city of Liepāja, possibly tied to the locality. The river Liva, which flowed through the city’s territory, may have had a second name, Liba, and “Libava” was taken from the geographical name of this place.