Executive Authority

The Moscow City Government is the supreme executive authority in Moscow.It is formed and headed by the Mayor.

The Mayor of Moscow is the Head of the Moscow government. He is the supreme holder of the capital’s executive power. The Government of Moscow also includes assistants to the Mayor (including First Deputy Mayors), the Head of the Executive Office of the Mayor and the Government of Moscow in the rank of the First Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Moscow government ministers and prefects of administrative districts in the rank of ministers of the Moscow Government.

The Moscow City Government performs a wide-range of duties: it protects constitutional rights and freedoms, regulates social and economic and housing and utilities sectors, ensures municipal economic integration and steady development of the city, drafts and approves city target programs and supervises their realization, makes and places municipal orders, ensures an investment policy and acts as an investor on the city’s behalf, establishes city organizations and appoints or dismisses their chiefs, drafts bills in accordance with the Moscow City laws and other legal acts, and even submits enquiries to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, including on the settlement of jurisdictional disputes.

The executive branch’s economy sector and functional authorities incorporate departments, committees, supreme directorates, directorates, and inspections, which are all ultimately subordinated to the Moscow City Government.

Territorial authorities of the Moscow City executive branch incorporates ten prefectures of administrative districts, subordinated to the Moscow City Government and headed by prefects, as well as 123 district administrative councils run by council heads.

City Administration Complexes

The economy sector and functional authorities of the city’s executive branch are grouped in accordance with five priority sectors, or city administration complexes, excluding some services directly subordinated to the Mayor of Moscow):

• Municipal economy complex;
• Town-planning policy and construction Complex;
• Economic policy and Moscow development complex;
• Social sector complex;
• Land property relations complex.

Executive Office of the Mayor and the Government of Moscow

The Executive Office of the Moscow City Mayor and the Moscow City Government was established to support their activities and is authorized to make all necessary preparations for meetings held by the Government, organizing its work, drafting agendas for government sessions, as well as providing legal, organizational, informational, documental, and technical support of the government’s activities.

Administrative Districts Prefectures

Prefectures, or territorial authorities of the executive branch, were formed in ten administrative districts of Moscow. They are headed by the prefects of administrative districts and perform the following functions in accordance with the Moscow city laws: coordinate, supervise and manage activities in the city’s administrative districts. The latter include several districts of Moscow run by heads of administrative councils, which are also considered territorial authorities of the Moscow City Government’s executive branch.

The prefects, along with other members of the government, — have the casting vote during the government sessions, — participate in the drafting of the government decrees and rulings and ensure their implementation. They also have other important responsibilities vested upon them by the Moscow City Government or Mayor.