On initial stage of formation of intellectual personnel for the Far North in Leningrad (the second half of the 1920s–1941)

The author examines the pre-war, fifteen-year period of Leningrad’s educational institutions’ activity in training primarily mid-level specialists for the Far North, a period constituting the initial phase of intellectual resource development. The focus is on the organization of vocational training in the second half of the 1920s (the North Group of the Rabfak of the Leningrad University and the Oriental Institute’s Northern Faculty) and the training of personnel in 1930–1941 (the Northern Peoples Institute and the Northern Department of the Hertzen Pedagogical Institute).