History of the Moscow practical construction institute

Introduction. The history of each university has its own uniqueness and is connected with historical events that took place in the country in this or that period. NRU MGSU has more than 100-year history of its existence, but the exact date of its transformation into a university was unknown. The historical conditions related to the reforming of the system of vocational education in the conditions of revolutionary changes caused by the Great Russian Revolution of 1917–1922 are considered.

Materials and methods. On the basis of literature and archival materials, published for the first time, from the fonds of the National Research University of Moscow State University, the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Central State Archive of the Moscow Region the reorganization of the 1st Moscow Construction Technical School into the Moscow Practical Construction Institute is investigated. The research is based on comparative-historical, historical-genetic, historical-systemic and retrospective methods, which allowed to identify and analyze important documents.

Results. The facts testifying to the great attention of the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR leadership to the work of the 1st Construction Technical School in Moscow were revealed: the payment of teachers’ labour at the level of higher education institutions, the organization of supplying the technical school as a “strike” with all necessary resources, the creation of departments corresponding to the university structure, the change of the technical school status to a new type of university-practical institute.

Conclusions. The formation of the Moscow Practical Construction Institute was initiated at the level of General Directorate of Vocational Education of the People’s Commissariat of Education in connection with the importance for the young Soviet republic of solving the problems of training professional staff of civil engineers for the planned transformations in the country on the basis of the State Plan for Electrification of Russia. Documents showing the stages and date of formation of the new university on December 8, 1920, open possibilities for further research of its development in 1921.

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