The article analyzes the basic information about the governors of the city of Verkhneudinsk, extracted from previously unpublished formular lists. The purpose of the article is to clarify the most general, characteristic portrait of individuals appointed to the position of mayor of Verkhneudinsk based on the use of formular lists. The work used micro-historical and anthropological research methods. The formal lists of the governors of Verkhneudinsk and the data given in them are analyzed in detail. The information revealed by the author was compared with the data of the western regions of the Russian Empire, on the basis of which conclusions were drawn about the presence of a certain specificity in the policy of recruiting the leadership of the city police on the eastern outskirts of the Russian Empire.

Evtekhov Roman Arturovich, Candidate of Sciences (History), Researcher, Department of History and Theory of Politics, Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 27, Lomonosovsky av., Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation, e-mail: lib-lab-scan@mail.ru

Evtekhov R.A. Formular Lists as a Source for the Study of the Social Portrait of Mayor First Half of the 19^th Century (on the Example of the City of Verkhneudinsk, Transbaikal Region). The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2020, vol. 34, pp. 83-90. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2020.34.83 (in Russian)

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