History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back PREPARING STUDENTS FOR TRAINING IN UNIVERSITIES IN THE 1920S–1930s (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF THE IRKUTSK ARCHIVE) P.V. Velikorussov, M.M. Voronina The post-revolutionary years in Russia (1920–1930) were also interesting from an «educational» point of view. The article describes the workers' faculties which were created in a short time and quickly spread across the country. After two years of study, thanks to a well-thought methodology and a program of training, people who could hardly count and write, could have entered higher education institutions. The main task of the workers' faculties was the wide involvement of the proletarian and peasant masses in the walls of the higher school. In the spring of 1919, the government approved proposals for reforming the higher education system in the country. The consequence of this was the organization of the so-called «workers’ faculties». They quickly spread first in the European part of the country and, almost immediately, beyond the Urals. Already in the beginning of 1920 in Siberia, the question arose of opening working faculties, first at the University of Irkutsk, then in other cities. By the 1930s, the workers’ schools became independent institutions attached, on a production basis, to universities. Workers’ faculties played a significant role in the life of the Soviet Union. Keywords: Russia in the 1920s–30s, preparation for entering higher educational institutions, working faculties. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.07.2019.776 Contacts: E-mail: voronina.pgups@gmail.com Pp. 54-59.