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The purpose of the article is to reveal the content and features of functioning of university departments specializing in local history in the 1980-ies–1990-ies using the example of Omsk, since these processes have not been sufficiently studied. The basis of the publication’s source base was made up of documents from the personal archive of the head of the laboratory, P.P. Vibe. The Local History Laboratory of the Omsk State Pedagogical Institute was established on the basis of scientific research conducted at the Faculty of History under economic contracts since 1988, and was actively functioning until the mid-1990-ies. The article considers the directions of its work related to the certification of monuments of the Omsk region, the study of their history, the study of settlements, the preparation of materials for educational and methodological manuals on historical local lore. The factors influencing its functioning are determined: the cognitive situation in the field of historical local lore, the personal factor, crisis phenomena in the economy. In identifying the characteristics of the laboratory as a type of scientific local history unit at the university, a comparative analysis was carried out with the laboratory of historical local history of the Altai State Pedagogical University. The common and special features of the “Omsk” and “Altai” variants of such institutions are revealed. The thesis is put forward about the positive influence of state on local history at the present stage and support for the initiatives of local historians. However, the crisis in the economy in the 1990-ies had a negative impact on the implementation of research projects, the development of local history work in the Russian province and revealed the dependence of these institutions on financial support from the state.
Keller et al. (Tue,) studied this question.