Discussion concerning the genetic aspects and ages of the granite rapakivi and related rocks situated on the Western slope of the Southern Urals and intruding the Riphean stratotype formations of the Bashkin an anticlinorium has a 135 year long histoiy. In concerning a modem view geochemically and otherwise, rapakivi granites show the characteristics of the А-type granites. The rapakivi granites and related basic rocks are considered to derive from anorogenic magmas produced by partial melting in the upper mantle (diabase dykes, gabbroic rocks) and lower parts of the continental crust (rapakivi granites).