I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

pedagogical workers’ faculty, full-time and part-time departments, Chuvash Pedago-gical Institute, 1930s, educational work, material and technical base, teacher training system.

The article is devoted to the activity of the Chuvash Pedagogical Rabfak, which functioned in 1930–1941 as part of the Cheboksary Pedagogical Institute. It pays special attention to the organization of pedrabfak, educational work, material and technical base of the institution, shows its contribution to the preparation of workers’- and peasants’ youth for entering the institute. It has been established that during 11 years of its operation (1930–1941) the Chuvash pedrabfak trained about 500 people for admission to the Chuvash Pedagogical Institute and provided the institute of the autonomous republic with applicants. In the 1930s, it made a significant contribution to the development of the system of training of national teachers for schools of Chuvashia.

Ефимов Лев Архипович – доктор исторических наук, профессор кафедры отечественной и всеобщей истории Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: sorma-lev@rambler.ru