Problems of Education in Turkestan in the Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries ★

After winning in 1865, Tashkent Russian Empire was formed Turkestan general-governorship. One of the objectives of Tsarist Russia - was the spiritual colonization of the indigenous population. In this regard, the colonial administration began to carry out radical reforms in education. Began to open up the Russian-native schools, which were the main agents of Russification policy of tsarism. Later parallel church schools were opened, also missionary policy. The main content of these schools was propaganda of the Russian language and literature. The colonial administration began to change the curriculum and introduce Russian as a subject of compulsory subjects in Mekteb and madrassas, among them the K. Kaufman, A. Ostroumov, etc. According to statistics, in the years 1867-1885 only in Syrdarya region was discovered about 134 Russian-native schools. Thus, in this report, the goal of the scientific analysis of the progressive policies of the spiritual colonization of the local population of the Russian Empire in the field of education. The basic methods are the principle of historicism, and comparative analysis of educational reforms in the years 1865-1889 in Turkestan. This report was used archival documents of the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Uzbekistan.