PROBLEM OF STAFF TRAINING AND ADVANCED TRAINING FOR THE USSR RAILWAY INDUSTRY UNDER ITS MODERNIZATION (1965-1985)
The article discovers specificity of the personnel problem solution in the USSR railway industry under conditions of modernization from the middle of the 1960s to the middle of the 1980s. The author examines problems of raising the general educational level, the personnel’s professional training and advanced training. The paper analyzes all the levels of the specialist’s training, from the general secondary to the higher professional one, reveals difficulties arising when personnel problems are considered simultaneously with the transport network renewal and describes methods to overcome them. The researcher evaluates efficiency of Soviet staff policy in the railway industry.