To the Question of the Opening of Educational Institutions of Karkaralinsk of the Semipalatinsk region in the Western Siberian School District in the late 19th – early 20th centuries

Abstract

The article deals with the development of public education in the city of Karkaralinsk in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The geographical, social, and cultural features of the city of Karkaralinsk, which in the studied period was part of the Semipalatinsk region, which belonged to the West Siberian Educational District, are revealed. Noting the absence of special works and scientific articles on this topic in modern historiography, a fairly extensive review of sources, primarily of an archival nature, is proposed. The main research methods used in the article are historical-system, historical-biographical, historical-statistical methods, as well as the method of system analysis and content analysis. The use of these methods made it possible to create a holistic picture of the process of formation and features of the educational environment of the city of Karkaralinsk in the late XIX - early XX centuries as part of the West Siberian Educational District. One of the central conclusions proposed in the article is the provision that the history of the development of public education in Karkaraly county in the second half of the XIX century - at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was closely connected with the educational policy of the Russian Empire on the outskirts, which was characterized by the creation of a single educational space and the introduction of a foreign, in this case, Kazakh population to the achievements of Russian culture, the training of future lower-level officials from representatives of the local population, the formation of a generation of new Russian citizens in the face of foreigners loyal to the official course. The analysis of the role of Tatar-Muslim schools in the Kazakh steppe during the studied period led to the conclusion that the Russian colonial administration sought to limit their influence. In detail, on the basis of statistical materials and various documents, the gradual development of public education in the form of schools of various levels, real and parish schools is traced. The role of the intelligentsia in the development of educational institutions in Karkaralinsk is revealed.