SALARIES OF TEACHERS AND LECTURERS AND THE MATERIAL BASE OF PEDAGOGICAL TECHNICAL COLLEGES AND PEDAGOGICAL SCHOOLS IN UZBEKISTAN IN 1925-1939

In this article, the author analyzes the changes in the salaries of teachers, teachers of pedagogical technical colleges, the financial and economic state of pedagogical technical schools, secondary schools in Uzbekistan in the period from the end of the 1920s to 1939 inclusive. The article provides the data on the changes in the construction of the premises used for studying by the students of pedagogical colleges. The reasons for personnel shortage among the teaching staff in schools are described, as well as the reasons for the insufficient staffing of pedagogical technical schools with students both in general in the USSR and in the Uzbek SSR. An analysis is carried out of those decisions that were taken by the People’s Commissariat for Education of both the country as a whole and the People’s Commissariat of Education of Uzbekistan, taking into account the circumstances that all decisions, resolutions and other regulations were issued from the center and all decisions were identical. There is a brief research of the influence of the internal political situation of that time on the state of the public education system and teaching in general. The article is based both on historiography, related to the universal education, personnel shortages among teachers in the 1930s, and on the unpublished materials from the National Archives of Uzbekistan (Tashkent), fund 94, “Secondary special education” 1925–1948. The article analyzes how the decisions made by the leadership of the People’s Commissariat for Education changed for the better the financial and economic spheres of the public education system and had a beneficial effect on the entire education system.