The collection for the first time publishes the annual comprehensive reports of the Sevastopol mayors for 1874-1915, deposited in the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive. Documents are the most important source on the history of administrative management, socio-economic and cultural development of Sevastopol. The reports summarize information on the state of natural resources, agriculture and viticulture, folk food, factory production, foreign and coastal shipping, city improvement, demographic processes, the fight against anti-state manifestations, etc.