The Socio-cultural Characteristics of Zemstvo District Heads in Ufa Province at the Late of XIX – the Beginning of XX Centuries

The article studied the activity of zemsky district heads in Ufa province in the late XIX – the beginning of the XX centuries, in the context of the analysis of their social composition, economic status, confession and other characteristics. Although the different aspects of local government institutions activity throughout the Russian Empire are widely studied in the Russian historiography, the research studies on the review of regional experience in such activities in the territory of the Russian province are scarce. Special works devoted to the study of the activities of the zemstvo district heads in the territory of Ufa province, aren’t represented. The authors, basing on attracting a wide range of unpublished sources, among which employees formulary lists have particular importance, attempted to present the basic socio-cultural characteristics of this category of officials in the local government system on materials Ufa province. The authors concluded that the average shape of the province zemstvo district heads had the following characteristics. The composition of the zemstvo heads in Ufa province, was completed mostly from the local nobility, which was 78 % of the total. The property status of zemstvo district heads in Ufa province was characterized by the fact that 44 % of zemstvo heads had land ownership, 10% had houses in different cities of Ufa province and 46 % did not have the real estate. By confession the vast majority of zemstvo district heads were Orthodox, and only 7 % of the number of professed Islam, Catholicism and Lutheranism. A feature of the educational level of district heads in Ufa province was the fact that half of their number was represented by persons with military education