ВЫПУСКНИКИ ФАКУЛЬТЕТА ВОСТОЧНЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ ПО ДАННЫМ АНКЕТЫ ПРАЖСКОГО КОМИТЕТА ПО ОЗНАМЕНОВАНИЮ 175-ЛЕТИЯ МОСКОВСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА

Abstract

Questionnaire of Prague Committee for Celebration of the 175th Anniversary of Moscow University is a unique mass data source of personal origin. It consists of evidence gathered from graduates from both Russian and emigration educational centers. Among the data, there are 442 answers from graduates from Russian universities. The majority of them represent universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan’, Kharkov, Warsaw, Odessa, Kiev, Yuriev. The data creates a unique source for studying social adaptation and employment of graduates from Russian universities abroad. More than a half of the respondents were students of Law Department; there were also graduates from departments of Medicine, History and Philology, Physics and Mathematics. Abroad, nearly all the medics managed to find jobs in medicine. Graduates from both History and Philology and Physics and Mathematics were successfully employed as teachers and professors. Law Department graduates turned out to be the least homogenous group. Nevertheless, the majority of them managed to find jobs as clerks, teachers and professors, journalists. However, there was also a small fifth group consisting of 4 graduates from Department of Oriental Languages of St. Petersburg University. Their few stories can’t make a basis for serious generalizations, but they still show several regularities. For instance, all the 4 graduated from the university in the 20th century; all the 4 chose European countries to start a new life. Their stories demonstrate what a combination of factors, like skills and luck, determined the fates of successful emigrants.