THE ROLE OF BAKHMUT DISTRICT COUNCIL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS IN THE 2nd PART OF THE 19th ? EARLY 20th CENTURIES

The process of the establishment of technical schools (handicraft classes, vocational school, Foreman’s school, Mining College), the role of the district council and the entrepreneurs in the organization, financing, functioning conditions of these institutions, the curriculum influence on technical training for the Donbas industry is studied in the article on the basis of archival sources and publications of the Bakhmut district in the 2nd part of the 19th ? early 20th centuries. The new methods of teaching ? the organization of handicraft classes, workshops, lectures at schools for the population, researching plans, school museums’ mobile exhibitions, school demonstration farms, shops of students’ products were developed by Zemstvo.