Children's Homes in the System of State Institutions for Orphans and Children Without Parental Care in the Bssr: Types, Functions, Their Role in the Socialization of Children (1944–1956)

The article examines the activities of the People's Commissariat of Education of the BSSR to solve the problems of child homelessness and neglect in the post-war period. The author examines the features of the development of the system of institutions for orphaned children, analyzes the main regulatory documents that determined and regulated the functioning of orphanages, the basic rules for accepting the enrollment of pupils, and the problems of material support for orphanages.