Established on the basis of the order of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan region on November 23, 1917. Liquidated in November 1924 in connection with the national demarcation of Central Asia
General Department (1917-1924)
Decrees and resolutions of the government of the RSFSR and TurkASSR on issues of public education; regulations on the People's Commissariat of Education of the TurkASSR, its departments and subordinate institutions.
Protocols and other materials of congresses and conferences of educators, teachers' meetings, meetings of the Board of the People's Commissariat for Education, regional and county departments of public education; reports on the activities of the People's Commissariat of Education, its departments, departments and local authorities.
Reports, information and correspondence on the opening and condition of the Turkestan State University and institutes, schools, courses, technical schools, boarding schools; on the publication of the "Bulletin of Education" in national languages (1921), on the annual holding of the "education week ", on the state of archives and the protection of ancient monuments and art.
Programs and curricula, reports and statistical data of schools and other educational institutions of the People's Commissariat of Education.
Main Department of Social Education (Glavsotsvos) (1920-1924)
Protocols of meetings of the Board Main Department of Social Education and the Commission for the Improvement of Children's Lives; orders, circulars and instructions Main Department of Social Education on the organization of work on school and preschool education. Regulations on the protection of childhood, on a unified labor school, orphanages, communal schools (1921); memorandums of school instructors and instructors in preschool education; reports, information and correspondence on the work of communal schools, exemplary schools, children's colonies, on the opening of kindergartens and playgrounds, on measures to combat child homelessness; lists of preschool institutions of the People's Commissariat of Education Turkestan ASSR.
Department of Vocational Education (Turkprofobr) (1920-1924)
Protocols of meetings of the board of the Vocational Education Department, circulars and instructions on issues of vocational education; reports, information and correspondence on the opening and activities of the Oriental Institute (1918), the school of horticulture, the pharmaceutical school (1919), the Kirghiz Institute of Education (1920), the Timiryazev Institute of Education, printing courses (1921), teacher training schools, teacher training courses, factory schools-factory apprenticeship; lists of educational institutions Department of Vocational Education.
Turkestan political and educational Committee (Turkpolitprosvet) (1920-1924)
Protocols of the meetings of the Turkpolitprosveta, the Theater Department and the Directorate of Agitation Points, meetings of propagandists and agitators. Circulars of the Turkpolitprosveta on political and educational work and the elimination of illiteracy; reports, reports and correspondence on the organization and activities of labors' houses, clubs, theaters, studios, libraries, cinemas of schools of Soviet and party work, agitation centers, the Art School and the People's Conservatory. Reviews of the Turkestan press (1920-1921).
Scientific department (1918-1924)
Protocols of meetings and reports on the activities of the Scientific Council (1918-1920), the State Academic Council (1922-1924 and the Academic Center. Charters of scientific societies and committees. Lecture programs on the history of culture and ethnography of Turkestan. Reports and correspondence on the publication of scientific papers and textbooks, on the activities of scientific commissions, scientific expeditions, the Tashkent Observatory and institutions for the protection of ancient monuments and art. Brief historical information about the ancient monuments in Turkestan (1923).
Waqf Department (1918-1924)
Decrees of the Turkish Central Executive Committee on waqfs (1922, 1923); minutes of the meeting of the collegium of the Waqf department and the Commission for the resolution of the waqf issue (1923); information and correspondence about waqf estates in the regions and counties of the Turk ASSR
Statistics Department (1919-1924
Statistical information on the national composition of the population of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1919), on schools of the 1st and 2nd levels and the composition of students in them, polytechnic education, schools for factory apprenticeships, and the elimination of illiteracy.
