Corean (International) Pedagogical Institute in Vladivostok: from Creation till Eviction (1931-1937)
The history of creation and the activities of Korean (Far Eastern International until 1933) Pedagogical Institute (Vladivostok) is considered. The Institute was the first educational institution of higher professional education involved in training of teachers for Chinese (1931-1933) and Korean (1931-1937) national secondary schools of the Far East (FE). On the basis of archival materials including the decisions of local authorities about its creation, the data is clarified about the time of the opening of the Institute, its structure, number of students, teaching staff, the dynamics of their changes are revealed from the first years of the Institute work (in November 1931) until its closing in September 1937, which is the novelty of the research. Attention is paid to the specificity of the educational process. It is shown what complex of problems (national, regional or internal for the Institute) the Institute faced with in the period of its formation. University’s activities cessation in Vladivostok in September 1937 in connection with the administrative eviction to Kazakhstan (to Kzyl-Orda city) presented as part of preventive large-scale action on forced expulsion (deportation) of the entire Korean population from the Far East, conducted by the Soviet political leadership on the pretext of “suppressing the penetration of the Japanese espionage” in the territory of the USSR.