Organisation of a school network in the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) region in 1945-1947
In 1945 a part of the province of East Prussia was transferred to the Soviet Union. During the battles of the World War II the province had suffered huge material damage, the number of the surviving local population barely reached 10% of the prewar level. The formation of the Soviet population in the new Russian province began. The article examines the peculiarities of organisation of public education system in the context of spontaneous growth of population, lack of teachers, facilities and resources of school network. Through the documents of the State Archive of the Kaliningrad Oblast and the early research the author examines a wide range of issues, that is the creation of civil management structures, opening of first secondary schools, their staffing, and the activities of regional authorities to establish institutions for the training of teaching staff in the territory of the region.