Personal cast of trustees in Orenburg educational circuit

Nowadays appealing to the historical experience of the institute of trustees is timely within the context ofthe country development, as it plays a specific role in the educational sphere of Russia and has not lost its significance at present. In1875 Orenburg educational circuit was established. The educational circuit included all the educational institutions of governorates andprovinces. The introduction of the post of educational circuit trustee was an important innovation. He had both governmental and socialfunctions. According to bylaws he was given administrative power to deal with management, guidance and organization of educationalpedagogicalprocess, financial and operational activities of the educational institutions in the circuit. During 1875-1917 there were12 trustees in Orenburg educational circuit. Each of them was assigned with the personalized Imperial Edict that was preliminary introducedby the Minister of National Education. Privy councillor P. A. Lavrovsky was the first trustee of Orenburg educational circuit, hewas appointed on January 1, 1875. Privy councillor B.N. Dal came in 1880, Kh.P. Solsky - in 1885, D.S. Mikhailov - in 1885. At thebeginning of 1890 councillor and cavalier I.Ya. Rostovtsev was appointed. On March 23, 1904 actual state councillor N.Ch. Zayonchikovsky(pseudonym - Nikolay Nakhimov). From 1906 it was pedagogue, missionary N.A. Bobrovnikov, from 1908 - honorarymember of Ufa governorate trusteeship of orphan homes A.V. Nikitsky, from 1916 to 1917 - actual state councillor A.N. Derevitsky.V.A. Gordlevsky, an outstanding orientalist-turcologist, Doctor of Science, Professor, became the last trustee of Orenburg educationalcircuit. Social characteristics and scientific activities of the trustees of Orenburg educational circuit are analyzed in the present work.Almost all the trustees of Orenburg educational circuit had a hereditary noble birth, basic university education, richest experience ofadministrative and managerial work, educational-pedagogical and scientific research activity in the National Science. Almost all thetrustees had a scientific degree of Doctor; some of them had a Professor degree (extraordinary and ordinary ones). According to thetable of ranks all the trustees had IV class and ranks of civilian community from the privy councillor to the actual state councillor,which were the highest civilian ranks having the statutory address Your Excellency. Some of the trustees were granted with the orders.Some of them were transferred by the trustees of other circuits so as to pass the administrative experience of Orenburg educationcircuit, leaving beneficent remembrance.

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