Региональная история и краеведение

The article examines the statistics of visits to regional museums of the Middle Volga cities from 1970 to 1990. The factors of the increase in the number of museum visitors are identified, and the existence of the “museum boom” of the 1980s is substantiated. The author of the article identifies the reasons for this phenomenon, as well as the nature of the development of museum communication in the period under study.

The article explores the relationship between the regional Party elite of the Lower Volga and the local system of managerial cadre training during the 1920–1930s. Drawing on archival sources and biographical data, it demonstrates how Soviet-Party educational institutions formed a loyal regional nomenclaturetothe Bolshevik authorities. The study confirmsthat local educational institutionsfunctioned as “incubators” of regional elites, ensuring their ideological reliability and administrative competence.

This article attempts to reconstruct the biography of one of the “pioneers” of Samara entrepreneurship, Yegor Nikitich Annaev. Three periods can be distinguished in his life and activities: Astrakhan (the most dramatic), Simbirsk, during which he successfully mastered entrepreneurial practices under the tutelage of I. I. Macke, and Samara, when he fully and successfully implemented his projects.

This article uses anthropological data (letters from residents of the Lower Volga region) to assess the effectiveness of social security services in the USSR from 1953 to 1985. The analysis of these data reveals that this period was marked by significant progress in providing services to the elderly and other vulnerable populations. However, the study also highlights the limitations of the state’s ability to fully meet the needs and aspirations of its citizens due to the socio-economic development model that had been in place since the 1930s.

The article examines the history of the German Communist University named after I. V. Stalin (from 1932 – the German Higher Communist Agricultural School), the only national managerial higher educational institution in the Lower Volga region, which existed between 1931 and 1939. The stages of its establishment, organizational structure, goals, and objectives in training party, Soviet, and agricultural personnel for the German autonomous region and other national districts of the USSR are investigated.

The article examines for the first time the service of Fyodor Ivanovich Leontyev, a stolnik, as the voivode of Saratov in 1662–1664. It provides a description of the internal life of the city, the occupations of its residents, and the names of Russian and foreign ambassadors who visited Saratov. The article also highlights the significance of the founding of Penza for the residents of Saratov. Additionally, it discusses Leontyev’s subsequent assignments after his service in Saratov, including his role in suppressing the rebellion led by Stepan Razin in 1670.

The article, which is written on the basis of previously unpublished archival data, examines the scientific activities of the Department of History and Archaeology of the Crimean branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1950–1953, including personnel, main areas of work, expeditions. This period in the history of Crimean academic archeology is largely due to the struggle against the so-called “teachings of N. Ya. Marr”. The scientific activities of this structural unit are being considered for the first time.

The article examines the state of horse breeding in the Stalingrad region on the eve of the Great Patriotic War and the sharp decline in the number of horses during the war years. The influence of such factors as sending horses to the front, evacuation of livestock from the western regions of the country, wintering conditions, lack of feed, deterioration of animal care and the epidemiological situation in the region, an increase in the burden on horses and a sharp decrease in the birth rate is shown.