Радянізація системи професійної освіти на Дрогобиччині (1939 - 1941)

Abstract

The article analyzes the processes of Soviet reorganization of professional education on the territory of the Drohobych region of the Ukrainian SSR during the initial period of the approval of the Soviet authorities in the West Ukrainian lands (1939 – 1941). It was established that at that time in Drohobych region at least 24 secondary specialized educational institutions of different levels and professional orientation (first of all, industrial, commercial, medical, cultural and educational) operated. The overwhelming majority of them worked on the basis of reorganized both private and state special schools, remaining from the interwar time. It was found out that the number of students of these institutions (taking into account the lack of data on the number of students of at least 8 out of 24 educational institutions) in the first half of 1941 amounted to more than 3 thousand people. The authors state the lack of documents on the ethnic composition of the students of these educational institutions. In addition, the article shows that communist indoctrination of pupils and students was carried out in special educational institutions.