The article examines certain aspects of the activities of the heads of the military-industrial complex of the Penza region in 1941–1945. The specifics ofthe source base arethe limited corpus of documentsfromthe Penza Region State Archive andthe subjectivity of surveys offactories by local party bodies. The appointment of senior officials in the region considered in the article confirms the all-Union trend. Sometimes the dismissal was accompanied by a transfer to another job.
