Sources of studying the party-nomenclature and economic elite of the Kuibishev / Samara region in 1960-1990th

The article contains a complex analysis of the source basis on the history of party nomenclature and economic (technocratic) elite in Kuibyshev (Samara) oblast in 1960-1990s. The paper presents a critical study of the main complexes (groups, massifs) of retrospective documentation; the sources are characterized by their specific structure, emergence, value, reliability, representativeness. The authors define the main directions of further use of the informative potential of published and archival retrospective documents in studying the late Soviet and Russian regional elite.