Вelarusian-language educational literature in retrospective: synthesis of the national foundation and all-Russian experience

The article focuses on the problem of creation of textbooks for Belarusian children. For the first time the material on this subject the author published in the journal “Весці Акадэміі навук БССР“ 25 years ago. But over the past quarter-century relevance of the topic only strengthened and acquired a new cultural and educational format, allowing to accumulate around the issue of new Russian and Belarusian sources. Therefore, this article begins publishing series of materials on historical and pedagogical issues, prepares by the researcher in the last few years while working with documents in the archives and libraries of the department of manuscripts of the Russian Federation.