Abstract:

The article examines the socio-demographic characteristics of the personnel of the leaders of the Tula region of the Tula defense period (October—December 1941) in the context of the evolution of the power elite in the Soviet Union on the eve of the Great Patriotic War.

Keywords: regional power, the USSR, the Great Patriotic war, the defense of Tula, the Tula City Committee of Defense, Vasily Zhavoronkov, Nikolay Chmutov, Vladimir Sukhodolsky, Alexander Melnikov, Anatoly Batamirov