Page "Nomenklatura" Paragraph 10

Every party committee and party organizational department, from the all-union level in Moscow to the district and city levels, prepared two lists according to their needs.

The basic ( osnovnoi ) list detailed positions in the political, administrative, economic, military, cultural, and educational bureaucracies that the committee and its department had responsibility for filling.

The registered ( uchetnyi ) list enumerated the persons suitable for these positions.