Policy on Moslem education & upbringing Russia implemented in the Northern Caucasus in the late XIX and early XX centuries

The paper presented some archive records and documented materials not published earlier. The survey examined the Russian policy in the domain of Moslem education of the late XIX and early XX centuries in the Northern Caucasus, and proved that a specific setup of Moslem education has been established in that period in the region representing two types of school, namely mektebe (maktaba) and medrese, with the training standards in both having essential faults; however, since another type of training institutions did not appear there, the mentioned schools stood high among the Moslems. The established setup of education and upbringing gave rise to fair criticism among the Russian and highlander thinkers, who dreamed about a new pro-democratic school that did not maintain class segregation. The study made an inference that the Government by means of an inspection system under the Ministry of Public Education, that for years to come slowed down advancement of the framework of Moslem training institutions not only for the Northern Caucasian region, but also for the entire Russian Empire.