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This paper considers the problem of differentiating the cities - regional capital cities of the Russian Federation - with respect to the number of representatives of the Russian elite native of them and identifies the macroregional patterns in the dis tribution of the places of birth of the elitists. It is found that the macroregions constituting the historical core of the country exceed, according to the ratio of the percentage of native-born in the elite to the percentage in the population of the regional capital cities in the elitogenesis, the “later’ macroregions, except for the North Caucasus. Moscow and St. Petersburg are most active in the elitogenesis. With respect to the indicators of the “historical core of the country”, the group of macroregions including the Volga region, Siberia and the Far East may be defined as the “Eastern depression”. It is determined that in this area Irkutsk stands out as having a high ratio of the native-born in the elite to the share in the population, and this can be regarded as the expression of its potential.