Abstract: The activity of monitoring systems and control systems in general is often criticized. This is applied primarily to the systems of state and municipal government. The opinions that management and control systems always criticize, regardless of an organization and the results its performance, applied technologies, the forms and methods of work widespread among officials and does not exclude the need to find other options of a situation clarifying. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical method of knowledge and a systematic approach to the study of historical facts and events in conjunction with the state government in Russia. The study is based on extensive use of system analysis various methods. The research conducted a monographic study of the control activity evolution within the government system over a long period, which in its turn increases the reliability of conclusions and generalizations. The facts and events that reflect the control evolution in the system of the state government in Russia, the relationship of management and control systems are systematized. The influence of environmental factors (the level of economy, the characteristics of political power, etc.) on the development of monitoring activities is revealed. Identified and substantiated The reasons of public administration low efficiency and the impacts on the effectiveness of management systems and control technologies are revealed and substantiated. Management as a young science, has a number of unresolved problems of their own but, at the same time, there is a centuries-old practice of management, which has established time-tested principles of management. In the most general form the issue consuidered in this study is the following one: “Today the situation of control organization in the system of public administration in Russia has the following reason: we do not know how to or do not want to do what needs to be done and why we do not want this? The reasons for the problems existing in the system of state and municipal management which allow to develop and implement the measures improving the efficiency of these systems in the practice of management are revealed and substantiated. The performed historical analysis provides some explanations for the low efficiency of control in the system of state administration.