Description of Bilchir Nikolaevsk Two-Class School of Irkutsk governorate in M. N. Khangalov's diary (1911)

M. N. Khangalov’s diary of 1911 with a volume of 340 sheets is kept in the collection of Buryatia History Museum and touch upon three key topics: shamanism, school activities, everyday and social life of modern Osinsky district of Irkutsk Oblast. In the article we have presented materials (pp. 1-202 of the diary, part 1) on daily life of Bilchir non-Slavic parish specialized school in Irkutsk Governorate (1890), where M. N. Khangalov worked from 1902 to 1918. Thanks to the efforts of Matvey Nikolaevich in 1905/1906 it was transformed into Bilchir Nikolaevsk two-class school with a 6-year course of study. The diary begins from June 12 (first note) and ends in October 31, when the school building was prepared for a new academic year. The notes have two clearly defined periods, determined by the style and rhythm of the description: unhurried vacation time and energetic, active, sometimes assertive chronotopes of the school year beginning. In the diary M. N. Khangalov is be portrayed as a leader, teacher, specialist in teaching methods, public figure and a person who wholeheartedly cares about the future of the Buryat people. The publication retains the punctuation, spelling and style of the original.