The key issue of the article is the staff resources on collective farms in Krasnoyarsk Krai by the beginning of the post-war reconstruction and agriculture development. The labor force sources are identified and the efficiency of their attraction is assessed. The study is based on the archival materials introduced for the first time. The author points out that solving the problem of labor shortages caused by the great Patriotic war was necessary for the successful agriculture recovery and development in the USSR and in Krasnoyarsk Krai in particular. During the war the number of productive farmers declined by more than 50 % in the region. The situation was gradually improved due to the armed forces demobilization. Returning to collective farms and employment of about 80 thousand productive farmers were important factors of agricultural development. Moreover, measures were taken to employ disabled veterans. All of the above allowed partially to fill the gaps of staff shortage. Furthermore, forced labor was used to compensate for labor shortages as well. The article contains the following facts: at the end of the war politically unreliable Russians, Poles, Soviet Germans, Ukrainian and Baltic collaborators were delivered from the former occupied European part of the country. Eventually, 170 thousand deportees, resettled in 37 districts, were registered in the region in 1953. Most of their families were placed in the local farms, where they had to work. Japanese prisoners of war were another category of forced laborers. However, in March 1946 only 2.6 % of the total number of war prisoners were involved in agriculture, and their work was ineffective due to their weak health. In addition, the regional authorities repeatedly appealed to the USSR Council of Ministers with requests for relocation of the working-age population from other areas to the region. 4,000 families of farmers were to be resettled to the region in 1952-1953. However, the regional authorities were unable to provide essential reception, housing and arrange the workflow. As a result, the resettlement process was suspended. The author also concludes that some results were obtained through the managing staff reduction policy, the involvement of farm heads' families in work. There were preschools in the farms for women with young children to be able to work. Medical and health institutions, health resorts and children's camps opened, which reduced people's temporary incapacity and improved their health. The author comes to a conclusion that the regional and national authorities took various measures to solve the staff issue in the collective farms. There were a lot of important and difference-making processes: the external human resources inflow (demobilization, migration, using prisoner labor, farm families and collective farms resettlement), internal farmers redistribution from administrative work to production and working-age women involvement. These measures contributed to the improvement of collective farms staff potential; however, solving the problem and providing workers to every farm in the region was an impossible task.