N. Mikael From the History of Training in Russia of Local Labor for African Countries (to mark the 115th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Ethiopia)

Abstract: This article is devoted to the history of training in Russia of professionals for Ethiopia during the period from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. The author pays special attention to the role played by Russian Red Cross in establishing the diplomatic relations between our two countries. When Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, the diplomatic relations between Russia and Ethiopia were suspended. The official Addis Ababa sympathized for the upholders of the tsarist regime and when the news about the execution of emperor Nikolas II and his family reached Ethiopia, a special memorial service was arranged in St. George’s church in Addis Ababa which was attended event by the Patriarch of Ethiopian Christian church, public officials and diplomats from western countries, including the temporary charge d’affaires of Russia P. K. Vinogradov. Methodologically, this research is based on the systematic, structural and functional, and comparative historical approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction. The formal relations between the two countries were frozen up until 1943. Ethiopia did not send any more students to Russia, this practice was resumed only in 1960s. However, Russia remains one of the first European country in history which started training professionals for Africa.

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