Koltashev A.N. The Nature and Specifics of the Mobile Cultural Institutions in Gorny Altai in the 1920s-1930s

Abstract: The article’s research subject is the cultural and educational activity of mobile institutions – mobile yurts –, in Gorny Altai in the 1920s–1930s. The research object is the process of Gorny Altai’s cultural development. The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the particularities of the creation and work of these mobile cultural institutions (the mobile yurts) operating during the named period in Gorny Altai. The aim of the article is to analyse the study of the nature and specifics of the mobile cultural institutions’ work in Gorny Altai in the 1920s–1930s. Particular attention is given to the history of the institutions’ appearance and to elucidate its functions and tasks. The article clarifies the particularities of the mobile yurts' work under the conditions of the native population’s nomadic way of life. The study’s main research method is the systematic method. The research is also based on the principles of historicism, objectivity, unity and interrelation of the general and the particular. The main conclusion derived from the study is the ascertainment that the mobile form of work, under the conditions of sparseness and difficultness of access to the populated settlements and the nomadism of Altaians, was most suitable and fitting for work with the population of Gorny Altai. This mobile form of activity familiarised the population with the unfamiliar to it way of life and raised its general cultural standards. Additionally, these institution actively conducted ideological work, fighting against traditional prejudices and imposing communist ideals. The author’s special contribution to the research of this topic is the use of different sources, including archival material, which have allowed to study the history of creating and of the specific of the mobile yurts’ work. The novelty of this research consists in its complex analysis of the little-studied topic and introducing new concepts for scientific use.

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