Creation and activities of national educational institutions in the Steppe Region in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries

The research aims to determine the history of the creation and activities of national educational institutions in the Steppe Region in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as changes in the content of education in them. The article analyzes the features of the functioning of individual practices of national education. The scientific novelty of the proposed material lies in identifying the dynamics of different types of national education (religious school, missionary school, several types of state schools (for training translators, boarding schools and boarding houses, Russian-Kyrgyz schools, village schools, etc.)), the content of education and the organizational foundations of activity in the eastern outskirts of the empire as a tool for Russifying the indigenous population and its cultural integration into Siberian society. As a result, it was found that the development of educational practices in relation to the indigenous population of the Steppe Region in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries occurred in close connection with the stages of national education, which set the changes in the discourse about the indigenous school and were determined by the mobility of the imperial authorities’ ideas about the goals and objectives of colonizing the region in the context of mass resettlement, the influx of peasantry from the European part of the country, and the administrative organization of the territory.