Abstract
One of the modem personnel technologies actively implemented in federal state bodies is the personnel rotation. This is due to its functional purpose associated with combating corruption, and through this with improving the efficiency of the public civil service. In this regard, the political leadership of the country is taking measures aimed at improving the mechanism of civil servant rotation. At the same time, the use of rotation in the practice of personnel work is clearly “lagging” without bringing the desired effect. Comparison of the goals of the personnel rotation in the public service and the means necessary for its implementation leads to the understanding of its real significance and further prospects of its use in government bodies. Rotation of territorial bodies executives of federal structures, of course, should be applied, but on the whole, it can hardly be regarded as one of the most important vectors of personnel policy in the civil service system. According to the authors’ opinion, the rotation should be considered as an auxiliary personnel technology, which has anti-corruption nature, and not as a priority for the formation of the personnel of the civil service of the Russian Federation, which is enshrined in the domestic service legislation.