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The authors show that in the minds of Russian youth there dominates a different hierarchy of the personal qualities of the elite as compared to the traditional (imperative) version. Using a survey, there is identified the constellation of the elite qualities in the students and graduate students of the institutions of higher education, in the representatives of the «acting» elite. In the article,a possibility is substantiated of expanding the human potential, the formation of the subjective and personal qualities which satisfy the needs of time. The study results serve to select the appropriate ways of recruiting elite in Russia, establishing a new system of nominating the best people for the development of educational programs, psychological and pedagogical techniques to identify and initiate the personal and subjective activity, educational self-aggrandizement, in view of Russian social-psychological characteristics and behavioral peculiarities.