The paper describes the mechanisms of coordination of stakeholders in the higher education system in the period from 1820 to 1863-the period of the active phase of institution - building and at the same time systemic transformations of higher education in Russia.The article is a part of the study of coordination mechanisms of higher education actors in certain historical periods. The analysis of the declared historical period allowed to identify a set of ideal-typical coordination mechanisms, most of which are subject to the existing public policy in the analyzed period.