The activities of the party and state bodies to solve the problems of training mechanized personnel for the village (based on the materials of the Ulyanovsk region)

The article attempted to conduct a retrospective analysis of the state of staffing of mass professions as machine operators of machine-tractor stations (hereinafter MTS) and forest protection stations (hereinafter FPS). The significant role of the district committees of the CPSU, as well as local primary party organizations, in the process of resolving personnel issues for agriculture is shown. In the course of his work, the author is based on previously unknown archival documents from the storage facilities of the State Archive of the Recent History of the Ulyanovsk Region and the State Archive of the Ulyanovsk Region, as well as materials from periodic printing