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The article is a continuation of a study on the relationship between regions and the centre during the period of Nikita Khrushchev. Based on materials from the Upper Volga regions, the historical context of the interaction of regional and central authorities in the USSR in the era of Leonid Brezhnev (second half of the 1960s to 1980s). On the basis of archival materials, memoirs, oral history data, historiography, the regional and central authorities and the political situation in the USSR of the era of «developed socialism» are characterised. There is an increase in attention from the leadership of the USSR and regional elites to the issues of supplying the population with consumer goods. The tendency of a slow increase in living standards in the capitals and at the regional level is noted. The reasons for the long stay in power of representatives of the regional nomenclature are analysed. The article concludes that at the domestic political level, the interaction of the power elites of the Upper Volga regions and the Union-Republican centre in the 1970s-1980s refl ected the all-Union trends in regional policy of Leonid Brezhnev – trust in personnel, compromises and collegiality. It is argued that at the socioeconomic level, there was an increase in negative trends for the non-Chernozemic RSFSR – excessive bureaucratisation, dependence of the province on ill-conceived projects of the centre, impoverishment of human potential, slow implementation of the achievements of the scientifi c and technological revolution

A review of the reports and discussions of the second round table of Yaroslavl's young historians, "The" Lords "of the Golden Ring of Russia," is presented in the article. Soviet regional elites and Moscow at the turning point of events (the 1960s to 1980s) were considered on August 28, 2019 in Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University. The scientific event was devoted to discursive discussions of issues of regional history (the 1960s to 1980s), to identification of problematic places of the scientific project "Soviet regional elites and their interaction with Moscow in the 1960s to 1980s: in archival documents and in historical memory." The purpose of the round table was related to the need to update the regional aspect of Russia 's recent history after 1945. The main attention of the participants of the round table was focused on the issues of relations between regional and central power in the late USSR, on the problem of regional lobbying, on crime in the Soviet province, on communicative practices of local power and Soviet citizens, on the role of oral history in the study of modern history. More than 20 people, including History teachers of schools in the city of Yaroslavl and undergraduates of history faculty of Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University made presentations and participated in discussions.