Vladikavkaz Loris-Melikov Vocational School

Abstract

Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov is a person who has gone down in the history of Vladikavkaz by many good deeds that have left a rich cultural and historical mark forever. He took the most active part, including financially, in the organization and functioning of a number of charitable and social and cultural institutions, donating significant sums from his own capital and income. The craft school of pre-revolutionary Vladikavkaz survived all epochs of political transformations and military events. Thanks to the vocational school, production on the territory of Ossetia developed successfully since there were high-quality trained cadres in a new direction, but functions to this day, preserving the memory of Mikhail Tarielovich as its founder. The financial investment and the capital left by Loris-Melikov in his will served as the basis for the functioning of the school during the first few decades since its opening. The difficult periods in which the educational authorities were forced to change the rules of admission in connection with those and other reasons causing financial difficulties are also briefly touched upon. The article provides information on income in the form of interest deducted by the bank and the expenses of these amounts for the needs of the school, including scholarships for students. The content of the publication will make it possible to trace the expansion of directions in the training of specialists due to the opening in different years of new departments, with a narrow specificity. The publication will allow you to have an idea of the urban life of this period, since it partly reflects the life of the inhabitants who turned to the workshops of the vocational school for household services, which the school was quite capable of providing conclusion, we are talking about the post-revolutionary activities of the school based already on the Soviet education system.