From the history of the Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical Institute in the first post-war decade

The Great Patriotic War had a serious impact on the functioning of higher educational institutions of the country. Immediately after its end, most of them began to organize the educational process in difficult social conditions, characterized by a shortage of teaching staff and educational literature. The article is focused on the description of the history of the Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical Institute in the first post-war decade. Based on archival data and compilation of information about the history of the institute, obtained from disparate publications, the main characteristics of the institute of that period are revealed: its structure, dynamics of the number of students, approaches to the organization of the educational process, strengthening and expansion of the teaching staff. Against the background of analyzing the process of transition of the university to peacetime activities, both negative and positive results of this period are noted. Conclusion dwells upon the fact that the Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical Institute was able, by expanding the directions of teacher training and increasing the number of applicants and graduates, to partially solve the problem of providing teachers for schools in the Amur region and the Far East.