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The article is devoted to the low-investigated problem of the judiciary formation in the first postwar years. Various aspects of the personnel work in Leningrad municipal court (Lengorsud) as well as its educational component have been studied based on archival data and normative sources. The research is based on comparative, structural, logical and quantitative methods, principles of historicism, consistency and scientific objectivity. In the early 1950s the judicial staff in Leningrad was incomplete, so the authorities sought to provide courts with competent and loyal employees as soon as possible. During the period under study, the issues of staffing and recruitment were assigned to the Ministry of Justice of the USSR. In the regions these issues were solved by the Ministry of Justice Directorates (MJD). In particular, MJD in Leningrad considered not only the number of people’s courts corresponding to the number of incoming cases, but also premises where the courts would be opened. Later, at the stages of the candidate’s approval, party bodies were involved (and in some cases Lengorsud, especially if it concerned its own staff), but these powers were formally assigned to the justice bodies. The article examines ways of filling judicial vacancies and problems that hampered the complete staffing of judicial institutions that were urgently needed under conditions of postwar growth of incoming cases (both civil and criminal). Having revealed the specific solutions to a problem of judicial staff in Leningrad, the author asserts that the main obstacle to the judiciary formation was the absence of a proper number of party citizens with a legal education and loyal to authorities. Other factors, such as repression and rotation in the judiciary community during the period under consideration were not of decisive importance for Leningrad.