Abstract:
The history of some pedagogical higher education institutions in
the Moldavian SSR, re-established and/or created by the Soviets since the second
half of the 1940s, is more or less known, or they were the predecessors of some uni
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versities in the Republic of Moldova. The shortage of teachers in the post-war period,
generated by the expansion of the Soviet educational system in the Moldavian SSR
after 1944 and, after 1949, by the transition to compulsory education of 7 classes in
villages and 10 classes in Soviet Moldavian cities, led the authorities to open tempo
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rary pedagogical higher education institutions, producing, in particular, teachers
for grades V-VII and VIII-X. The author tries to decipher, based on unique archival
sources, the ins and outs of the founding process of the Soroca Educational Institute
– a pedagogical higher education institution with an ephemeral existence, to which
the regime assigned a role of „firefighter” for the shortage of teachers in the public
education of the Moldavian SSR.
