Honorary citizenship, like new estate, Russian empire was enacted by Manifest of emperor Nikolai 1 on 10 april 1832 year. It like nobility estate, have been shared on personal and posterity.

There were children of gentlefolk's included in honorary generation citizenship, had received hereditary honorable citizenship, means born in this conditions merchants, commercial titles, rewarded (after 1826 year.) with one of the Russian medals, as well as merchants who were 10 years in 1^st guild or 20 years in 2^nd and never been a bankrupt. About receiving of personal honorable citizenship could ask people graduated from Russian universities, artists of free conditions graduated the Academy of art or had diploma in artist of the Academy, foreign scientists, artists, also trading capitalists.

Title of Hereditary honourable citizen was inheritance. Wife was noticed about honourable citizenship from Husband, if she was connected to one of the low orders, and widow kept the title after husbands' death.

Freemen has been using their freedom from capitation tax, recruit. They have had the right to participate in the city election and to be elected choosing public position which not below those where electing the tradesmen 1^st and 2^nd rank. Freemen could use their title in all acts. In case of bankruptcy, become inoperative the honourable citizenship in court and some rights of the freemen has become inoperative in sign in to handicraft industry.

In 1833 year was confirmed, that freemen are not included in the general census, but having got special lists on each city. Hereafter of those who had the honourable citizenship rights were specified and extended.

It has been established In 1836 year that the request about personal honourable citizenship can make only graduates from universities, received on completing their degree. In 1839 year there were granted the honorable citizenship to emperor artists of theatres (1^st rank, to serve for a definite period on a scene).

In the same year the students of high commercial school house in Saint Petersburg. In 1844 year the right for honorable citizenship was distributed on servants to Russian-American company (from estates, not having rights to serve the government service).

In 1845 year was confirmed the right on hereditary honourable citizenship of merchants, received Holy Vladimir and Holy Anna medals. Since 1845 year hereditary honourable citizenship started to bring a citizen rank from 14^th till 10^th class. There were distributed on graduates from Lazarevsky institute in 1848 year the right for receiving of honorable citizenship (personal). The same year graduates from gymnasium, children of personal honorable citizens, merchants and philistine were provided the right on personal honorable citizenship. In 1849 year personal honorable citizens had the possibility to take a military service. In 1850 year the right to be rewarded with title of the personal honorable citizen received a Jewish, who was on special duty at governor-general (“scientist Jewish at governor” ). To act on a public service there were specified in prospect the freemen rights and

enlarged a scholastic institution, completing of which was giving the personal honorable citizenship.

In 1862 year the right for honorable citizenship had received a technologies of 1^st rank and engineers-technology, completed the S-Petersburg technological institute. In 1865 year there was established, that from now on at hereditary honourable citizenship a merchants of the 1^st Rank are erected, after being in it less than 20 years. In 1866 year the right for receiving of hereditary honourable citizenship was granted to merchants of the 1^st and 2^nd rank, who have bought estates for no less than 15 thousand rubles in Western province.

At the beginning of XX century there were belong to hereditary honourable citizens from the birth are children of personal noblemen, the subaltern officers, government officials and clergymen, which were granted with medals of the Saint Stanislaw and St. Anna (besides 1^st degree), ecclesiastic children of orthodox and Armenian-Gregorian profession, children of church acolyte, to obtain a class in clergy seminary and academies with degree, the children of protestant preachers.

Graduates from a scholastic institution were entitle to hereditary honourable citizenship, studying at commercial and manufactory-advisory, merchants, had received one of the Russian medallion, merchants of the 1^st rank (20 years time), to actors of imperial theatres (1^st rank), served no less than 5 years. Also personal honourable citizenship had who acted on civil service and hold 14^th rank, obtain a class from some scholastic institution, were made redundant from civil service holding 14^th rank and awarded with the subaltern officer rank after retirement, rural craft workshops operators and masters of this establishments after serve, therefore 5 or 10 years, operators, masters and teachers of technical and craft training workshop of Ministry of Trade and industry, served 10 years, masters and technical-masters of the low craft school The ministry of national education.

There is confirmation required in case of honourable citizenship belongs to specific person by right of his birth, in other case was required a decision of Department pursuivant of senate and letter from Senate.

Those honourable citizens could be in other estates - like merchant and clergy and not depend on line of business (there were some disadvantage for freemen in some department until 1891). Corporative bodies of the freemen were missing.

The second half of the XIX century is when Russian cities have had received their rights to entitle “The honourable citizen of the city”, like it was in European countries. People of this category weren't in estate. The award procedure with this title compare to present days was very complicated. At first after presenting a candidate for honourable citizen by number of votes in Dumas meeting. Than

decision of the city authority was reported governor-general to Home Secretary, who “asked about greatest pleasure of the Emperor”. This order was kind of reliability of the candidate and no surprise there were honourable citizens in most cases in central Russian cities who became high-ranking officials and people close to province elite. More important was public meaning of the title. Provincial towns were using this right for protection its interests, trying to take on high-ranking official with moral and ethic duties. And on the contrary, using exactly the same way to express their gratitude after achieved decision from central authority. However such method selecting the candidates for title the “Honourable citizen of the city” less suitable for Far East young cities. There are labors that invested lots of hard work in development of the cities, therefore first become the honourable citizens of Khabarovsk people who has better merits in the city. These were people highly educated, competent with making decision, talented organizers.

The first honourable citizen of Khabarovsk became military-governor of Primorye (sea front) area Michael Pavlovich Tikhmenev. He promoted Khabarovka to become the center of the Primorye (sea front) area, and granting it city status, and than Khabarovsk city became a center of the Pryamursky general-governor, now -7^th capital of Far-Eastern region.

One of the large contribution was made in development of Khabarovsk city by first architecture of the city engineer-colonel Vladimir Gregoryevich Mooro, first general-governor baron Andrei Nikolayevich Korf, Nikolay Lvovich Gondatty general-lieutenant, Master of the Horse if his Emperor gratitude Nikolay II, merchants of the 1^st guild Sergey Yakovlevich Bogdanov, Vasily Fedorovich Plusnin, Innokenty Pavlinovich Pyankov and etc. There 13 people became a Freemen of Khabarovsk city before the Great October Socialist Revolution, among which four general-governor, one military-governor of oblast, colonel-engineer, 7 merchants and entrepreneur. All of them deserve this title for making a better life for Khabarovsk city people.