The movement of student teams: the historical experience of Tuva (1960-1980s)

he state strongly supports various youth initiatives today oriented to the labor education, the formation of patriotism and active citizenship. It is necessary not only to take into account the economic and socio-cultural characteristics of the regions, but also to know the historical experience in order to implement the state youth policy. The resort to the history of the movement of student teams from 1960 to 1980 will help to solve this problem successfully. The activity of student teams in Tuva during the Soviet period is one of the positive examples. Using the regional experience the article analyzes the history of the formation of student teams, the organization and direction of their work, the specifics of the activity and the reasons of the usage of student labor at the various facilities of the national economy of the Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in comparison with the general trends of the All-Union Student Movement. The article examines a question of youth participation in the construction of New Shagonar announced as All-Union leading Komsomol construction in 1977. In Tuvan historiography this research is the first attempt to treat the subject using a wide range of archival and statistical materials and to analyze the republican periodical press of the affected period. At the end the research reveals the positive role of student teams of Tuva and youth from other regions of the Soviet Union in the socio-economic and cultural development of the republic in the 1960s - early 1980s and the importance of the student movement in the formation of patriotic and labor education of young people.