This report discusses the role of the Soviet government and the leadership of Iakutiia in increasing the intellectual potential of the region in the second half of the twentieth century through the development of specialist personnel. The authors draw attention to both positive and negative factors related to the process of growth of specialist personnel in the region. The article discusses some aspects related to the provision of training and education for native men and women, such as individual business sense and organizational skills, the system of attracting and training indigenous cadres, and the language of instruction.
Egor Antonov, candidate of historical sciences, is a docent and head of the History Department at the Institute for Humanities and Minority Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Yakutsk. E-mail: antonegor@gmail.com
Venera Antonova, candidate of pedagogical sciences, is a docent at the Department of Social Pedagogics, Pedagogical Institute of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. E-mail: antonegor@gmail.com