Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2022. № 3 (43). P. 122—143
HISTORICAL SCIENCES
UDC 94(470.5)“1959/1970”
Zharkov Aleksandr Vladimirovich, Postgraduate student
Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
CHANGES IN THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF THE POPULATION OF THE SVERDLOVSK REGION IN 1959—1970
Abstract
The leadership of the USSR throughout the entire Soviet history made efforts to improve the educational level of the population. So it was in the 1960s, when the government set the task of transition to universal secondary education. Based on the data of the population censuses of 1959 and 1970, the article analyzes the change in the educational level of the population of the Sverdlovsk region that occurred during the intercensal period. Conclusions are drawn about the growth of both the general level of education of the population and the proportion of people with secondary and higher education. Growth was more intense in women than in men and in the countryside than in the cities. At the same time, in comparison with the RSFSR, the growth in the proportion of people with secondary general and incomplete secondary education was more intensive in the region. However, the proportion of people with higher and secondary specialized education grew less intensively. And according to these indicators, the region widened the gap from the RSFSR.
Key words
Education level, Sverdlovsk region, RSFSR, population census, age group.
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Zharkov A. V. Changes in the educational level of the population of the Sverdlovsk region in 1959—1970. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2022, no. 3 (43), pp. 122—143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2022.43.10.