The System of Public Education in Dagestan Oblast (1860–1917). Part 3

This work explores the system of public education in Dagestan Oblast in the period .The present part of the work examines the period 1900-1917.The principal source used in this study is the reports of the Trustee of the Caucasus Educational District released between 1900 and 1914.Use was also made of certain relevant materials from the Russian State Historical Archive (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation).Owing to this study, some of these materials were introduced into scholarly discourse for the first time.The study's findings revealed that the period 1900-1914 witnessed an average increase of 3.5 times in the number of educational institutions in Dagestan Oblast.There was an increase of nearly 4 times in the size of its student body.Furthermore, the period witnessed the first attempts in the direction of the provision of vocational education in the region.Secondary education was available to both males and females in all of the region's major cities -Temir-Khan-Shura, Derbent, and Petrovsk.Lower education was available in certain outlying areas of the region as well (e.g., Kazikumukh).Primary schools accounted for the majority of all schools in the region.The ethnic makeup of the region's student body was pretty much the same in the early 20th century as it was in the late 19th century.There were changes in the social-estate composition of the student body within the region's secondary education sector -children of nobles and functionaries (the majority in 1900) were displaced by children of members of the urban estates as the dominant group.Nevertheless, despite the region's successes in public education, more than 80 % of its * Corresponding author E-mail addresses: dkgoran.