The Sverdlovsk Law Institute during the Great Patriotic War: education and science through the prism of clerical documents
The article is devoted to the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. It raises the question about the need to investigate clerical documents of the Sverd- lovsk Law Institute as a significant source of studying the development of the Soviet legal educational system in emergency conditions. The authors describe the range of clerical documents deposited, among others, in the archives of the Ural State Law University. They cite as an example the full texts or the fragments of some orders signed by directors of the institute. These documents characterize different spheres of life of the provincial university, which was drawn into the intensive scientific development during wartime. The authors conclude that there are significant opportunities for using the fund of clerical documents in order to learn about the history of the university, the domestic legal and educational tradition, the development of historical and legal source studies a well as the commemorative practices concerning the Great Patriotic War.