CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF YENISEISK IN THE LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES

Abstract

Yeniseisk is an important cultural and historical centre of Yeniseisk region. It was the first stockated town on the Yenisei River in Russian colonization of East Siberia. Being directly connected with gold-mining of the taiga, fish and fur riches of Turukhano-Taimyrskii region, Yeniseisk had not only peculiar economical and geographical position but it was a unique socio-cultural place. One of the most important cultural features of Yeniseisk was its educational system. Characteristics of the educational system of Yeniseisk at the end of the XIX – beginning of the XX centuries are analysed from the point of view of the theory of modernization in this article. The dynamics of the development of the town has high profile. Educational system is an important component of the town cultural system. Using a systematic approach to research its conditions for the development, its characteristics and the analysis of the system as a component of the town cultural system is very effective. The results of this article can be used for a comparative research on the history of culture of Yeniseisk and Siberian towns and cities as well as for an overall research of socio-cultural environment of Yeniseisk in the late XIX – early XX centuries.

Keywords

• yeniseisk
• socio-cultural environment
• educational system
• town
• siberian society
• culture