institution

Town Council (Gorodskaya Uprava)

town council

also: городская управа, gorodskaya uprava

The elected executive board of a provincial Russian town, responsible for the municipal budget; Chekhov stages its deliberations over the fire brigade's finances as farce.

Reading notes

Trouble §20 town council
Gorodskaya uprava, the elected executive board administering a provincial town's municipal affairs; Avdeyev seeks out its secretary as the one "educated man" who might explain the workings of the case to him.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Townsfolk (Господа обыватели) §3 The town council
The gorodskaya uprava, the elected executive board of a provincial Russian town, responsible for municipal budgets such as the fire brigade's. Chekhov stages its deliberations as pure farce.
To D. T. Savelyev, 4 September 1884. Moscow. §6 town council
The gorodskaya uprava -- here Taganrog's town council, which administered the scholarship stipend paying for Chekhov's medical studies in Moscow.