The article deals with the views of experts on the successful and unsuccessful decisions taken by the candidates for the post of the Head of the municipality "City of Astrakhan" in the election campaign of 2012. Published results are the one of the sections of the expert interview “Use’s possibilities of resource potential of candidates for the post of Head of the municipality “City of Astrakhan”. The expert interview was conducted in the framework of the survey “The problem of effective use of resources of the power modern Russian political elite” and made in the preparation of the thesis for the Ph.D. (Political Science). The main purpose of this section of the expert survey is assessment of those decisions which experts recall after a year from the date of the election.

The article deals with the views of experts on the successful and unsuccessful decisions taken by the candidates for the post of the Head of the municipality "City of Astrakhan" in the election campaign of 2012. Published results are the one of the sections of the expert interview “Use’s possibilities of resource potential of candidates for the post of Head of the municipality “City of Astrakhan”. The expert interview was conducted in the framework of the survey “The problem of effective use of resources of the power modern Russian political elite” and made in the preparation of the thesis for the Ph.D. (Political Science). The main purpose of this section of the expert survey is assessment of those decisions which experts recall after a year from the date of the election.