The Don (North Caucasian) State University department staff everyday life at the 1920s
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-4-137-154
EDN: ETDAFZ
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the everyday life of the lecturer of the Don University, and from 1925, the North-Caucasus State University. Chronologically, the study covers the period of the first Soviet decade in the South of the RSFSR. Everyday life is considered an important characteristic of the lecturer's life and a cultural phenomenon of a specific university community. Extracurricular, everyday life outside the university is highlighted. Living conditions are identified, and the food and housing problems of the lecturer are examined. It is established how these problems affected the work of the Don lecturer.
Academic routine is also considered. Its components are studied: daily classes, meetings of scientific circles and subject commissions, and scientific research. Stable practices of the university community have been identified: anniversaries, commemorative evenings for SKGU scholars, and others. Phenomena of everyday university life have been described ("family-like" atmosphere in the medical faculty clinics), and a number of factors influencing the scientific work of lecturers in the 1920s have been characterized. The research conducted revealed the mechanisms by which lecturers adapted to the hardships of everyday life as well as to university changes. Many components of academic daily life indicated attempts to maintain previous university traditions (scientific societies, clubs, public lectures, honoring professors on jubilees). At the same time, the influence of central state organizations — KUBU, SNR, and locally, the local committees — on lecturer' everyday life was increasing. By the end of the 1920s, a Soviet lecturer was expected to become an active participant in social life.
About the Author
Nadezhda I. Shvaiba
Southern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign History and International Relations at the Institute of History and International Relations
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Shvaiba N.I. The Don (North Caucasian) State University department staff everyday life at the 1920s. Kavkazologiya. 2025;(4):137-154. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-4-137-154. EDN: ETDAFZ
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