What was the main purpose of the literacy schools (ликбез) and teacher training courses mentioned for the period 1920-1930?

Education and Science in Altai Krai during the USSR Period

Period/Direction: 1920s–1930s

Struggle against illiteracy

• Event/Fact: Opening of literacy schools, teacher training courses (c. Nemal).
• Why it was important (Significance): Training of personnel for the national schools of Altai.

Pedagogical education

• Event/Fact: Creation of the KIUU (1939) - Institute for Advanced Training of Teachers.
• Why it was important (Significance): Improvement of teachers' skills.

Period/Direction: 1941–1945 (War)

Evacuation

• Event/Fact: Relocation of the Zaporozhye Machine-Building Institute (ZMI) to Barnaul.

Period/Direction: 1950s–1960s

Technical education

• Event/Fact: Establishment of the Altai Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1959.
• Why it was important (Significance): Development of machine-building / agriculture.

Science (Research Institutes)

Period/Direction: 1970s–1980s

Classical education

• Event/Fact: Opening of Altai State University (AltSU) in 1973.

Overall result

• Event/Fact: A powerful system of vocational education (vocational schools, technical schools, higher education institutions) was formed in Altai Krai.
• Why it was important (Significance): The region became not only an industrial but also an educational center of Siberia.