THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF THE PEOPLES OF THE TURUKHANSK REGION OF THE YENISEI PROVINCE IN THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD (1860S–1917)

The article considers the experience of the formation and development of the system of national education for the small indigenous peoples of the North of the Yenisei province in the pre-revolutionary period and analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in this process. The infrastructure of national schools, their legal and methodological support is characterized. The theoretical basis of the research is the anthropological approach, comparative-historical, structural- functional, problem-chronological and statistical methods. The author comes to the conclusion that the Russian Orthodox Church played a fundamental role in the genesis of the system of national education for the indigenous small peoples of the North of the Yenisei province in the second half of the 19th - 20th centuries.