The laws regulated the legal status of the Urals' workers until the abolition of the serfdom were an organic part of the Russian feudal order. But they had been quite specific owing to the great weight of the Urals’ regional industry in a national economy and to historical particularities concerned with the emergence of this mining industrial region. For the 1st half of the XlXth century, various categories of the Urals' workers had significant differences In their rights. The workers at enterprises - state-run (kazyonnyye) and ‘’possessed" (posessionnyye) - had used more property ana civilrights than privately owned ones. So it's not surprising that almost all claims of workers at privatelyowned works had been focused on the legal preferences shared by their counterparts. Nevertheless, the real misconduct of the law provisions had! largely done the statuses of various groups of workers almost equal.