Rural Doctor of the Siberian Hinterland of the XIX - early XX centuries in the Mirror of Socio-Professional Analysis

The article analyzes the social, ethnic, age, gender composition, length of professional experience, service mobility as factors that influenced professional motivation, career strategies and values that determined the socio-professional identity of rural doctors of the Yenisei province. The analysis of the personal data of rural doctors shows that the core of this socio-professional group consisted of people who started their professional career with a low social start. It was this part that had the longest (more than 10 years) work experience as a rural doctor, but was only 6.3 %. The vast majority of the rural medical corps were specialists with very active service mobility. However, despite the high turnover in the cadre of rural doctors, we can talk about the formation of a common understanding of professional tasks arising from the peculiarities of the socio-professional status of doctors in the Siberian region. It consisted in the fact that, on the one hand, rural doctors were part of the service bureaucracy, on the other - the emerging intelligentsia. This dualism hindered its design as a new social stratum.