Personnel matters and establishment of system of training censors in the Urals in 1920-1941

The article reconstructs the process of organizing the system of personnel preparation and training of officials of censorship body in the Urals. It is stated that in 1920s the matters of professional competence of a censor did not attract attention. Only in 1930-ies there was an attempt to create the system of training for censors in the censorship bodies of the Urals. The article was written on the basis of a wide range of sources, a part of which is first introduced to the scientific circulation.