SECONDARY EDUCATION FORMATION IN SARANSK AT THE END OF THE XIX <sup>TH</sup> – THE BEGINNING OF THE XX <sup>TH</sup> CENTURY
The author considers secondary education formation in Saransk at the end of the XIX <sup>th</sup> – the beginning of the XX <sup>th</sup> century, describes in detail the process of a women's gymnasium opening and its transformation into the eight-class gymnasium, pays considerable attention to the formation of men's secondary schools network in the town: the opening of a seven-class non-classical secondary school and a teacher's seminary, and concludes that the urban population's education did not correspond to the level of the economic and social-cultural development of the region and Russia.