The article examines the main forms of interbudgetary transfers provided to the budgets of municipalities from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The object of the research is the forms of interbudgetary transfers. The aim of the study is to study the role of interbudgetary transfers in the system of budgetary provision of local government. The author analyzed the statistics of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of the Russian Federation for 2014 - 2020 in order to trace the change in the volume of transfers for the specified period with the determination of the pattern of their fluctuations. The author has built a graph of changes in interbudgetary transfers with visualization for each form (the graph shows the total volumes, volumes of donations, subsidies, subventions and other transfers). The article discusses the reasons for the change in the volume of transfers. The author examines in detail the political aspects related to the regulation of interbudgetary transfer flows.