Abstract
The article reveals the transformations happened to the specialties structure in Higher agricultural education of Siberia at the end of the 1950s-the beginning of the 1990s. On the basis of archive documents there were analyzed the measures taken by central administrative structures, local authorities and the academic staff of the region for further development and perfection of major organization departments in eight agricultural institutes and their branches. It is stated that to the end of the period reviewed the number of faculties and specialties in Siberian agricultural higher educational institutions rose two times in comparison with the beginning of the period. Some of the agricultural institutes and their branches showed the rise in three or four times. In consequence of the measures they raised the number of specialists trained in Agronomics, Livestock engineering, Mechanics, Power engineering, Veterinary, Economics, for rapidly developing branches of regional agriculture. The article is intended to people interested in history of Higher education in Russia.
Highlights
Higher agricultural education is an integral part of the system of Higher education in Russia
The higher educational establishments training the specialists for agro-industrial complex rank high among the higher schools
Collective and state farms were underfurnished by agronomists, livestock specialists, mechanic engineers, economists and other specialists with higher education
Summary
Higher agricultural education is an integral part of the system of Higher education in Russia. The issue of human resources in agro industrial complex has a great socio economic value. It has been and will remain one of the state policy priorities. In this regard the interest to the history of higher agricultural school in the country and in the region, especially in the period from the late 1950s’ till the early 1990s’, has risen significantly. The history of higher agricultural education in Siberia is not an exception. In the period mentioned above there existed eight higher educational establishments and their branches. Their structure had been dynamically developing and improving. Studying the traditions of higher schools of Soviet period makes it possible to understand the modern processes in the field of education
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