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Education

THE NORTHERN PEOPLES’

INSTITUTE OF

THE RUSSIAN STATE

PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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he Northern Peoples’ Institute of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after

A.I. Hertsen has been undertakening its activity for 84 years in St. Petersburg. Since
the institute foundation (earlier it was a division/faculty), this city has become the place

T where pedagogical and scientific cadres are prepared for the Northern regions. The
representatives of more than 30 indigenous small in numbers peoples of the North, Siberia, and Far

East annually come here for getting knowledge that makes the work of the Northern Peoples’ Institute
especially essential and significant.

The history of the staff preparation for the North, Siberia, and in the native languages and to compose exercise books in them.
Far East in Leningrad-St. Petersburg has begun since 1925, when In order to form the pedagogical experts, who were so needed
the indigenous Northerners started to come there for studying, by the Northern national schools, since 1929/1930 the teachers’
firstly, on the working faculty then on the Northern Faculty of preparation had started from the Northern peoples in Leningrad
LSU. Life dictated the necessity to establish a special institute. State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Hertsen (now the
This independent educational institution – the Northern Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Hertsen).
Peoples’ Institute – was organised in 1930. It was under the In different years, this subdivision of LSPI n. a. A.I. Hertsen/
supervision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. the RSPU n. a. A.I. Hertsen was known as the Northern peoples’
The Northern Peoples’ Institute was designed to prepare division or the faculty of the Far East peoples. The faculty has
semiskilled and highly qualified staff for the Soviet party and acquired the status of the Northern Peoples’ Institute since 2001.
culture establishment, cooperative-farming work, industry, and The young Soviet state allocated the necessary funds for
science for the North. Under the Northern Peoples’ Institute, the the national staff preparation from small Northern peoples.
scientific and research association was set up to create writing The students from Siberia and the Far East having graduated

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