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Abstract: The article presents the experience of Ural State Pedagogical University (USPU) in its training education leaders over past years. It describes the trends in development of pedagogical education, challenges and peculiarities in the training educational leaders. The reasons for prioritization of pedagogical education are given. The need of modernization of pedagogical education and preparation of the leaders in education is outlined in view of inconsistent results of previous years. Different practices and foundations are used for leader education. Not only professionals or administrators can be leaders, but educational institutions can be leaders as well. Our model of education of leaders embraces two different kinds of leadership – administrative and professional, which is based on harmony and combination of variations emphasizing the cultural constituent of the leader. Leadership issues are closely related to the practical goal of professional development. From this point of view, the status of the pedagogical university, the influence of USPU on various sociocultural spheres of the region as a key university of an educational cluster is evaluated.