Training of Scientific Personnel in the Middle Volga Region in the 1930s

The author examines the formation of a system for training scientific personnel in the Middle Volga region in the 1930s. Particular attention is paid to the reasons for the shortage of scientific personnel in the region during the first five-year plan and the methods for solving this problem. The author pays special attention to the process of regulation and coordination of forms of training scientific personnel, and analyses the main decisions of state and party bodies on this problem. The research also focuses on the development of the postgraduate system on an all-Union scale, as well as the specifics of this process in the Middle Volga region. The main institutions for training postgraduate students are identified, as well as the difficulties that hindered this process.