SYSTEM OF PROFESSIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING OF MENNONITE COLONISTS OF THE SOUTH OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
The article views the teacher training system in the colonies of the German Mennonites who lived in the south of the Russian Empire in the late XIX - early XIX century. The Protestant beliefs and compact residence made it necessary for immigrants to develop their own teacher training system considering the objective conditions of living in a different socio-cultural and legislative field. All those factors were the reasons of determined and energetic work on the management of their own school system under the leadership of talented educators.