Abstract: The subject of the research is to identify the changes that occurred in the activities of teachers in the Krasnoyarsk Territory during the WWII. The mass composition of this professional group, which worked both in the city and in the countryside, however, was not the subject of a special study. The main attention is paid to regional peculiarities, which make it possible to assess the effectiveness of the state policy of the period under study. The attention of the party and state bodies to the education system did not weaken during the war years, which cannot be said about the care of teaching staff, due to the objective and subjective conditions of the period under study. The identification of an array of typologically diverse historical sources in the State Archive of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, which were first introduced into scientific circulation, makes it possible to obtain answers to a number of key questions of teachers' daily practice. The research methodology is based on the principles of a critical understanding of the activities of the party-state bodies for the social protection of teachers in the region. The historical and anthropological method made it possible to reconstruct the working and living conditions of a mass professional group, their impact on the results of activities aimed at solving state tasks facing the education system during the period under study. Due to limited material resources, the decisions of higher authorities were not fully implemented in the region, however, control over the implementation of the Law on Universal Education and Patriotic Education of Students was systematic. In the context of the mass conscription of the region's population into the Red Army, the teachers who remained in the province were overloaded not only with the academic load, but also with socio-political, cultural and educational work with the population, participation in agricultural work, etc. All this had a negative impact on the quality of education, the moral and psychological state of teachers. The teaching staff courageously overcame material and household problems along with the entire population of the region, while maintaining dignity and the status of professional affiliation. Therefore, during the war years, a significant number of teachers were awarded high state awards.

Abstract: The subject of the study is housing conditions, diet, organization of life in orphanages of the Yenisei province after the end of the Civil War. In the conditions of mass homelessness and juvenile delinquency, the state sought to take care of all children in need, to re-socialize them and make them useful citizens of the new state. On the basis of archival materials, the living conditions of minors in orphanages in the early Soviet period are analyzed. Of all the institutions of social and legal protection of childhood operating during the study period, orphanages were selected as the most widespread institutions. The leading method of research was historical and anthropological.

The article emphasizes the desire of the young Soviet state to make orphans and street children useful citizens of society. The authors come to the conclusion that the network of children's social institutions in the province, dispersed across different people's commissariats, did not cover all children in need of care and assistance, the operating orphanages could not cope with the tasks assigned to them, contributed little to the preparation of pupils for future independent life, but helped them survive in the difficult conditions of the period under study. The work of institutions was primarily affected by financial difficulties, budget deficit, lack of teaching staff, lack of systematic interaction in the activities of state bodies and public organizations involved in solving the "children's issue" in one way or another.

Abstract: The goal of this work is to assess the efficiency of the program-targeted method of administration based on the experience of implementation of the complex program of sociocultural development of Krasnoyarsk Krai during the period of 1980’s. The specificity of the region is substantiated by the fact that the large-scale tasks on its industrial assimilation were performed in the conditions of complete absence of infrastructure, deficit of labor resources, as well as its geographical remoteness from the central authorities. The scientific novelty consists in the following: based on the archive data, the authors attempted to determine the decision-making mechanism along with realization of complex goals pertaining to changes in the working conditions and meeting the cultural demands of the population of the region. The article also analyzes the public initiatives that emerged in the region during the examined period.