UN „POMPIER” PENTRU SISTEMUL EDUCAȚIONAL AL RSS MOLDOVENEȘTI – INSTITUTUL ÎNVĂȚĂTORESC DIN SOROCA

Abstract

The history of some pedagogical higher education institutions in the Moldavian SSR, re-established and/or created by the Soviets since the second half of the 1940s, is more or less known, or they were the predecessors of some uni - versities in the Republic of Moldova. The shortage of teachers in the post-war period, generated by the expansion of the Soviet educational system in the Moldavian SSR after 1944 and, after 1949, by the transition to compulsory education of 7 classes in villages and 10 classes in Soviet Moldavian cities, led the authorities to open tempo - rary pedagogical higher education institutions, producing, in particular, teachers for grades V-VII and VIII-X. The author tries to decipher, based on unique archival sources, the ins and outs of the founding process of the Soroca Educational Institute – a pedagogical higher education institution with an ephemeral existence, to which the regime assigned a role of „firefighter” for the shortage of teachers in the public education of the Moldavian SSR.