This is a review of Middle and Late Devonian chondrichthyans from pelagic facies of the South Urals and southern Poland. Short descriptions are given of 16 well defined species, referred to seven shark genera. Stratigraphic ranges of these species confirm that the representatives of Protacrodontoidea and Stethacanthidae were resistant to changes in the biosphere close to the Frasnian - Famennian and Devonian - Carboniferous boundaries, contrary to most phoebodontid species.