School of Working Youth and Its Role in Raising the Level of Education of the Worker and the Entire Soviet Society in the 1960s

The article analyzes the development of schools for working youth in the 1960s using the example of the Ukrainian SSR, one of the largest republics of the Soviet Union. Schools for working and rural youth were established to create conditions for obtaining education for teenagers and young people in evening and correspondence courses, which allowed attracting personnel to production and agriculture, necessary for the restoration and further development of the Soviet Union after the Great Patriotic War. The largest number of schools for working youth and the number of students in them were in the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, which caused increased interest in the problems of schools for working youth in these republics. Based on the study of publications in the leading republican pedagogical journal “Radyanska shkola" (Soviet School, Ukrainian), the main ideas of educators on improving the work of schools that provide education without interrupting work are presented. Attention is focused on the organization of students’ independent work, as well as the types and forms of lessons.