In the article the historiographycal observation of the problems in city self-government development in West Siberia is made. The article presents the analysis of papers, describing the events on the second part of XIXth and the beginning of XX century and late 90s, when the system of local self-government took one of the key positions in the process of Russian State reformation. In the article the major stages of the problem elaboration are distinguished, the results of investigations and the perspectives of further studying the questions of local self-government in considered region are evaluated.