The article describes the main stages of the conceptual framework of local institutions after the October Revolution of 1917, and especially its development before the first Federal Constitution in 1924 noted that the project initially considered the organization of local government in its present understanding So, the adoption of the first Soviet Constitution RSFSR in 1918 was preceded by discussions, which reflect the different embodiments of the apparatus of local authorities. The majority of the proposed project the organization of Soviet power at the local level (including, for example, "The establishment of the Soviets" Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, projects, SocialistRevolutionaries maximalists P.P. Rengarten, M.A. Reisner et al.), Although it declared "the triumph of the Soviet power ", based on the experience of rural and urban self-government and were imbued with their ideology. Tips met the authors of projects are not "combat weapon of the proletariat", but only by the local government, such zemstvos, which functioned until the October Revolution of 1917, and even some leading Soviet theorists in the early 1920s. the idea of local self-government was not denied - in particular, P.I. Stuchka put forward the "organic theory" of local government, which, however, was considered a transitional state theory to the control system on the ground. However, all such projects were rejected by the Commission of the Central Executive Committee, or simply not considered it as a constitutional commission sought to reflect the Constitution of the idea of the dictatorship of the victorious proletariat. And already in the Constitution of the RSFSR in 1918 it was fixed system of local councils that were formed in the townships, counties, provinces and regions in the form of a Congress of Soviets. And later became a sold option rigidly centralized system of local Councils, which is reflected in the Constitution of the USSR in 1924 and which defined the organizational and legal basis for the continued functioning of the institute of local Soviets in the Soviet state.