Preparation of the Charter of Moscow began even before the adoption of the current Constitution of the Russian Federation in December 1993.

In order dated September 10, 1993 № 5707-I Supreme Soviet approved the special provisions on the procedure for agreeing on a draft charter of the city of Moscow, its amendments and additions to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation and the President of the Russian Federation determines the order to harmonize the provisions of the Charter relating to the implementation functions of the capital Moscow Russia, with federal authorities.

Also in the Presidential Decree of 10 December 1993 N 2125 "On general principles of administrative-territorial division and organization of local government in Moscow" contained the phrase "... prior to the adoption of the Charter of the City of Moscow."

[3] The Commission consisted mainly of officials of city and regional levels, but were among its members and prominent lawyers - experts in constitutional law professor SA Avakyan and VV Lazarev.

Draft Statutes of the city charter was developed, and on March 15, 1995 Moscow City Council adopted Resolution №18 "On the order of adoption of the Charter of the City of Moscow", which established that the charter must be submitted to the Moscow City Duma, up to March 22, 1995, and the beginning the draft in the first reading to be held March 29, 1995 was set a monthly deadline for amendments to the basis adopted in the first reading the draft and after the draft Charter as a basis in the first reading, it was decided to conduct a citywide discussion of the main provisions of the draft.