This article focuses on the formation of national personnel for Kalmykia, primarily management through training through soviet party school. This region was characterized by weak economic development, specific difficulties of nomadic lifestyle, lack of infrastructure and other numerous difficulties. In connection with the formation of the "new" Soviet state, there was a transformation of various spheres of society. The main task of the Soviet-party school was to prepare Kalmyk national managers, party and Soviet nomenclature, the leading criterion of which was the ideological orientation. The article deals with the content of the educational process in the school, programs, teaching methods, educational level of students. The purpose of training functionaries in these educational institutions was the socio-cultural modernization and change of social psychology of people. Base personnel based in the region to power structures have largely been graduates of this institution, who led and directed the party, Soviet and economic organs of the autonomy. The article uses the results of field research, in particular, eyewitnesses and participants of the events conducted in the 1980s - a survey, statistical data collection, Phono-and photographic documentation, etc. They were a kind of representative sources for the generalization of historical experience of training of nomenclature personnel for regional social spheres in the first decades of the Soviet state. Archival materials were introduced into scientific circulation, through the study of which it was concluded that in the period under review the foundations of political education were laid, the Soviet-party schools were one of the components of the formation of training, through which the model of society was transformed.
