THE ROLE OF THE GROZNY OIL INSTITUTE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ROOTING (KORENIZATION) POLICY OF THE PERSONNEL OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS OIL INDUSTRY (1920 - EARLY 40s)
The work shows participation of the Grozny Oil Institute in the policy of rooting - one of the aspects of the Soviet national policy in 1920-30s. As part of the policy implementation, the educational institution aimed at creating a layer of educated technical personnel of higher qualifications from representatives of the local mountain population of the North Caucasus. Attention is focused on the problems encountered by the university in solving this problem in the Chechen Autonomous Region (later the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Region): inconsistency of the rooting police; the low share of Chechens and Ingush among residents of Grozny during this period; the mountain population's commitment to traditional patriarchal lifestyles and agricultural labor; low literacy rates; biases of some university teachers regarding the ability of "nationals" to master exact sciences. The article shows the role the Chechen Rabfak (Labor Faculty) created within the structure of the institute in 1930 to attract the indigenous population to study at the university. The document concludes that the rooting policy has given limited results in the region. It emphasizes that it was the rooting policy that gave start to the progressive process of forming its own national educated elite among Chechens and Ingush.