Abstract: The aim of this study is to identify the influence of external and internal factors on the development of the Krasnoyarsk regional organization the "Znanie" society and on the forms and scale of its educational activities in 1947 - 1992.The article's research object is the activities of the Krasnoyarsk regional organization the "Znanie" society in the propaganda of political and scientific knowledge in the period under study.The research subject of this study is the changes in the forms and scope of lecture and non-lecture propaganda, which were used by lecturers of the Krasnoyarsk regional organization the “Znanie” society for the spread of socio-political, natural science, scientific-technical and agricultural knowledge.
For the first time in historiography, the educational activities of the Krasnoyarsk regional organization the “Znanie” society is made the central subject of an independent research work, despite the fact that the topic of the lecture activities of the “Znanie” society is widely covered in the scientific studies of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.The author comes to the conclusion that the main form of educational activities of the Krasnoyarsk regional organization the "Znanie" society were lectures contracted with organizations. The change in the Society's composition, the recruitment of teachers, engineers and technicians, foremost workers and production innovators who did not have the skills to compose and deliver academic lectures, lead to the emergence of various non-lecture forms of spreading knowledge. Since the end of the 1950s, in the educational activities of the Krasnoyarsk regional organization, as well as in the Society as a whole, two directions were cemented: educational and agitation propaganda.

Abstract: The object of this research is the process of incorporation of Krasnoyarsk intelligentsia into the political and enlightenment organization, which major goal consisted in distribution of the political and scientific knowledge in USSR. The subject of this research is the establishment and problems of operation of the Krasnoyarsk branch of All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge during the period when the indicated society forms and develops as an academic organization of the prominent scientific and public figures of the country, claiming a somewhat political-educational autonomy (1947-1949). The author introduces into the scientific discourse the previously unpublished archival documents that allowed compiling, systematizing, and analyzing the new factual material that provides a relatively full representation on the creation, operation, and educational activity of the regional All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge in the period of 1947-1949. The author concludes that this organization was formed by the prominent scientific and cultural figures, who had ideological and organizational ties with the leading part – All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Majority of the organization committee members involved in creation of the Krasnoyarsk branch of All-Union Society along with such enrolled by 1948 were the lecturers of the three universities of Krasnoyarsk: Medical, Pedagogical, and Siberian Forest Engineering institutes. In the first year of its existence, the Krasnoyarsk branch of All-Union Society was not able to pursue the lecturing activities due to experiencing the organizational issues.

Abstract: The subject of this research is the evolution of target orientations of the cultural-educational activity of the All-Union Society “Knowledge”, transformation of the conceptual approaches towards integration of the Soviet intelligentsia into nonprofit organization that was called to raise the general cultural level of population, distribute the political and scientific knowledge in Soviet Union. Special attention is given to the question of the impact of target orientations upon the functions realized by the indicated nonprofit organization in Soviet society, as well as upon the organizational foundations and structure of the All-Union Society “Knowledge” itself. Leaning on the analysis of transformation of the goals and tasks, organizational foundations and structure of the All-Union Society “Knowledge”, established in various editions of the Charter of the organization, the author defines the key periods in the history of one or another cultural-educational organization. The author developed the theoretical concept of analysis of the activity of All-Union Society “Knowledge”, having suggested the original periodization of its history divided into three periods: 1947-1954; 1954-1982; 1982-1991. In accordance with the highlighted periods, took place the changes in conceptual approaches towards the educational and organizational activity of the All-Union Society “Knowledge”, understanding of its goals and tasks, which leads to transformation of the organizational foundations and structure of this Society.