Trade union activity, cultural, public and political life of Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute in the second half of 1950s–1980

Valeriy V Petrik,Tatiana B Lysunets,Daria A Cheremisinova,I Ardashkin,N Martyushev

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20162801079

Abstract

Basing on rich documentary, the article studies the activity of the trade union organization in Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute and the impact the trade union had on the cultural, public and political life of the Institute in the second half of the 1950s-1980s. The activity is stated to be held in different forms and areas: amateur arts, propaganda, wall-newspaper and house magazine, vigilant groups, University of Culture, student club, lecturing agitation group, student construction brigades, department, groups and hostels competitions. The authors come to the conclusion that involving students and faculty members into cultural, public and political life added greatly to fostering the future engineers as it took them less time to adapt to the team-spirited workforce after graduating from the higher educational establishment. The article is intended for the people interested in history of higher education in Siberia and Russia.

Highlights

Higher technical education has always been on special note in the system of tertiary education in Russian Federation
There has been traced the raise of the interest to the history of high technical schools in the country as a whole and to the local history in particular, especially to the period from the second half of the 1950s -the 1980s
The documents of the primary party organization are of special interest as they give the critical analysis of the deans office activities, the activities of the trade union committee and the academic staff of the university in different arias. They give the opportunity to follow the transformation of the structure of academic and scientific, and academic support divisions of Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute (KPI), to reveal the content and the character of the specialist training process, to characterize the trade union activity, cultural and political life of KPI in the given period

Summary

Introduction

Training engineers for leading brunches of home industry fosters strengthening of the economical independence of the country and promotes improvement of the live standards. The task can be successfully fulfilled on the basis of outrunning growth of engineering higher educational establishment network and providing the on going training process of highly qualified specialists. There has been traced the raise of the interest to the history of high technical schools in the country as a whole and to the local history in particular, especially to the period from the second half of the 1950s -the 1980s. High technical schools of such a great industrial and cultural center as Krasnoyarsk are not an exception. Studying the traditions of high schools of Soviet period contributes to deeper understanding of the modern processes in this sphere of education

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