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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.