Ensuring the safety of the Soviet state through the development of school education in children’s labor colonies in European North of Russia (1935-1956)

The Organization of learning in schools for children labor colonies of the NKVD - MVD of the USSR was a part of the activities of closed institutions for minors. School education of the condemned adolescents were solving two interrelated tasks. The developing industry has got competent personnel, able to learn new skills. After his release from prison for juveniles opened the possibility of further socialization. The need to ensure universal secondary education has demanded introduction in the second half of the 1930s in the children''s labor colonies of the NKVD of the USSR seven-year education. The increase in the number of children''s labor colonies in the first half of the 1940s affected the European North of Russia and led to the discovery of these institutions of new schools. In them was the development of material-technical base and improvement of the educational process. Since the second half of the 1940s in educational institutions of children''s labor colonies has increased the role of educators, parents and public school groups. Priority new forms of work received in the first half of the 1950s. The salient features of school education in children''s labor colonies is the priority of the production activity over the learning process, the problematic nature of the optimal organization of schools, the specific contingent of students. The development of school education in children''s labor colonies of the NKVD -MVD USSR has been evolutionary. It was developed in the context of the existing model of social development, combining both positive and negative sides.