The author considers the actions aimed at the liquidation of illiteracy and introduction of universal primary education in the period of industrialization and culture dissemination in the USSR. The author draws attention to the fact that the fast-growing industry was in need of competent specialists and indicates the demand for wide-scale reforms in the education.The author argues that as a result of the implementation of the first five-year plan universal education was introduced in the country, illiteracy was eliminated and wide-scale secondary professional education was made available, highly skilled professionals and researchers were trained, etc. It is noteworthy that industrialization substantially improved the state of affairs in the country and in its capital.The author has studied numerous archived documents to present the evidence of development of a network of schools, higher number of students, organization of construction of school buildings, bigger amount of government funding of schools and other institutions for children in Moscow in the years of the first five-year plan.
Описаны мероприятия, которые проводились в Москве для решения задач ликвидации неграмотности и введения всеобщего начального обучения в период индустриализации и культурного строительства в СССР. На основе архивных документов показаны некоторые особенности организации школьного строительства, укрепления материальной базы школ и других детских учреждений в Москве в годы первой пятилетки.