Establishment of subaltern officer’s institute in the Ural: experience of hierarchical cluster analysis

Importance. The formation of subaltern officer’s institute in the Ural in the last quarter of the 19th century is considered. The importance of the research lies in the fact that, despite a thorough study of the subaltern officers personnel of the Russian Empire, serious researches of subaltern officers’ sites were practically not carried out. The purpose of the research is to analyze the subaltern officers’ sites in the Ural with the help of mathematical and statistical tools.

Materials and methods. The Russian modernization theory is chosen as a medium-level methodology. The key method of the study is the multidimensional data analysis on the subaltern officers’ sites.

Results and Discussion. The construction of a multifactorial typology of subaltern officers’ sites in the Ural in 1878 is considered. The results obtained can be used in teaching the course “History of law enforcement agencies of Russia”.

Conclusion. The reform of 1878 failed to create police bodies in the Ural adequate to the rapid growth of the population and the territories’ extensiveness. Although most of the counties of the Southern Ural can be considered much easier to patrol than in the Vyatka and Perm governorates. In 20% of the counties of the Ural, patrolling sites by one rider turned out to be impracticable.

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