Social-professional portrait of the leaders of the political elite of the Southern Urals in 1964-1991

The article contains the comparative study of the main social-professional characteristics of the leaders of the political elite of the Southern Urals in the second half of 1960-1980 years is made. The special attention is paid to the gender and age characteristics, the nationality, the level of education, length of service in the occupied position and others. Besides that the author concentrates on the peculiarities of careers of the chiefs in Volga-Ural region in the given period of the Soviet history.