Training of culture and arts workers in Chuvashiya (1917-1937)
In the paper, the system of training social and cultural sphere specialists of Chuvashiya and the stages of its establishment and development are considered against the background of the region's historical events. The data are generalized relying on the possibly most complete volume of historical facts. Cultural and leisure activity being developed, the work on training specialists being organized, the republican further training courses operating, area seminars available for workers of culture institutions of Chuvash ASSR, as well as the content of the curricula of training social and cultural sphere and art specialists in Chuvashiya - all the aspects open up opportunities for studying this problem as an integral phenomenon which is characterized by multiplicity as well as by continuity of the previous and the subsequent generations. In the contemporary Russia, the situation in the sphere of culture calls up quite certain historical and pedagogical analogs with the cultural construction and education of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. So this experience can be taken into account and made use of by the local authorities and self-government agencies as well as at artistic educational institutions in the present days.