The study analyzes and publishes the problems of organizing personnel in the financial structure of Kazakhstan in the 20s. XX century, which took place in difficult conditions of the formation of a young state. The study reveals some aspects of the general nature of the formation of specialists from the indigenous population. In the early 1920s, it was difficult to attract workers to local financial institutions. Of particular difficulty was the appointment of heads of financial departments, due to the lack of trained specialists. One way to fill vacancies in the financial sector was by recruiting employees who worked in the institutions of the former tsarist government. This was mainly due to the high level of experience of employees working in the institutions of the tsarist government. Also, in the course of the study, the quantitative and qualitative composition of employees involved in financial structures was analyzed. The results of the study showed that the permanent staffs of the central administration of the People's Commissariat for Finance were established in mid-1921. One of the difficult moments in the activity of the still immature and not yet firmly established financial bodies of Kazakhstan in the beginning. 20-ies., Is the direct intervention of parties, which indicated how right to select personnel in the financial system. Moreover, this approach was also typical, later when he headed the political system - the Bolshevik Party of Kazakhstan - L. I. Goloshchekin. During this period of activity of the Commissariat of Finance, due to an acute shortage of specialists, along with nominees from among the workers, farm laborers and the poor, the task was also set to attract personnel from the party composition of the CPSU (B). Despite the fact that various decrees and other instructive documents were issued in order to attract specialists to work in local financial bodies, in fact, the work on the actual involvement was not carried out properly, and the documents themselves were not given much importance. The results of the study give the following conclusion that the activities of the People's Commissariat of Finance in the 1920s. of the last century, despite the difficult conditions for the formation of financial personnel, laid the foundation for the formation and further development of personnel in the system of financial bodies of the modern Republic of Kazakhstan.