(Staging materials of the training course of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics - Control Processes of St. Petersburg State University (1997 - 2003) This edition presents the second edition of the Sufficiently General Theory of Control (SACT) with additions and clarifications in the 2004 version, and as well as materials explaining it, included in the Appendix. The Appendix represents the work “Principles of personnel policy: state, “anti-state”, public initiative” in a revised and expanded form.