Development of evening education in the system of secondary specialized education in the European North of Russia in the 1950-1960s

In the presented paper, based on the materials of regional statistical collections and annual reports of secondary specialized educational institutions, the process of development of the evening form of education in this system in the territory of the European North of Russia is traced. The chronological framework of the study is justified by the educational reform carried out in the USSR at that time, one of the significant aspects of which was the development of the form of education under consideration. It was revealed that by the end of the 1960s, in the system of secondary specialized education in the European North of the RSFSR, the list of technical shools and colleges in which evening departments functioned, noticeably expanded, and the number of students in these departments increased significantly. Thanks to the development of the evening form of education, technical schools and colleges managed to significantly increase the training of mid-level specialists.