Decree on schools in labor settlements

Archive source:
Special settlers in Western Siberia. 1933-1938 ECOR. Novosibirsk. 1994 p. 33-34
Archive:
GARF. F. R-9479. Op. 1-C. D. 25.L. 18.19. Copy

Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on schools in labor settlements 12

NOT SUBJECT TO DISCLAIMER.

The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) note the unsatisfactory leadership of the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR in the education and upbringing of children of labor settlers: schools in labor settlements are not staffed with teaching personnel, there are very few party members and Komsomol members among teachers, pedagogical training of the overwhelming majority of teachers is completely insufficient; schools are not provided with teaching aids and in most territories and regions (Sverdlovsk region, Far-Eastern region, Azov-Black Sea region, etc.) are located in unsuitable [for study] premises. Regional, regional and district departments of public education do not pay adequate attention to these schools and do not provide them with the necessary specific assistance.

The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) DECIDE:

1. To oblige the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, together with the NKVD, to develop and submit for approval by the School Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks) within a month specific measures to develop and strengthen the school network in labor settlements, ensuring that the children of labor settlers are covered by universal education on a general basis. In terms of school construction for the next two to three years, provide for the construction of new school buildings (from primary to secondary schools) in the largest labor settlements at the expense of the local budget.

2. To establish that the direct management of the schools of labor settlements (appointment of administrative and teaching staff, inspection, provision of teaching aids, financing, etc.) is carried out by the corresponding district departments of public education. Regional and regional departments of public education shall ensure systematic control and monitoring of the state of schools in labor settlements.

3. The People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, within two months, fully equip schools in labor settlements with proven cadres of trained teachers with a higher or secondary pedagogical education.

4. To instruct the Central Committee of the Komsomol to outline and implement a number of measures within a month to strengthen the pioneer organizations in the schools of labor settlements, taking into account the special conditions and importance of the political education of the children of labor settlers. The Central Committee of the Komsomol to send at the disposal of the NKPros of the RSFSR at least 100 Komsomol members to work in schools of labor settlements.

5. Children of labor settlers who graduated from an incomplete secondary school should be admitted on a general basis both to technical schools and to other special secondary educational institutions; those who have graduated from secondary school are admitted on a general basis to higher educational institutions.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR V. MOLOTOV

Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) I. STALIN

12 On a copy of the decree "On schools in labor settlements" the head of the Gulag M. Berman imposed the following resolution, intended for execution by the management of labor settlements: “1) Urgently collect data from all regions - where there is a need for schools, in which regions in the first place to build; 2) ... to specifically clarify §§ 4 and 5 as being especially important for children and young people working settlers [enets] - for the purpose of separating them from their parents. " - GARF, f.R-9479, op. 1- p. 25, l. eighteen.