The officer corps of Russian army's dragoon regiments in Siberia through the 1st half of 1750s

The article is devoted to analysis of military career, class origin and material conditions in respect of the dragoon regiments' officers, located in Western Siberia by the middle of 18 th century. Heterogenity of the officer corps shows that military service still remained an important vertical mobility channel inside the social connections system of Russian empire by that time.