Abstract: The article presents the characteristics of the "non-ceremonial" portrait of students in the state labor reserve system, associated with the spread of unauthorized absences and non-attendance of classes as everyday behavioral practices among student working youth.
The purpose of the article is to present unauthorized absences and non-attendance of classes as common behavioral practices that underlie the identification of social types of the "non-ceremonial" portrait of students in the state labor reserve system ("truant" and "deserter"). The methodology of the work is based on the subcultural approach.
The scientific novelty of the study lies in the identification of social types of the "non-ceremonial" portrait of students in the state labor reserve system - "deserter" and "truant" - based on behavioral practices associated with unauthorized absences and non-attendance of classes. Research results: 1) it was proven that unauthorized absences and non-attendance of classes were widespread in the socio-cultural environment of students in the state labor reserve system; 2) several forms of unauthorized absences and non-attendance of classes were identified: these are escapes, considered as desertion, temporary unauthorized absences with return back at the will of the student himself, truancy from classes and industrial practices, which could be both episodic and systematic in nature and, finally, lateness for events planned by the rules of the daily routine, including classes, physical exercises, walks, etc.; 3) such social types as "deserter" and "truant" were identified, which formed the basis of one of the vectors of the "non-ceremonial" portrait of students of the state labor reserves system. The results of the study can be used in studying the history of the formation of the vocational education system in the USSR, as well as in studying the socio-cultural appearance of working youth in the 1940-1950s.

Abstract: The creation of the USSR state labor reserves in 1940 was accompanied by the formation of a specific socio-cultural environment, which remains practically unexplored to this day.The purpose of the article is to determine the structure and composition of behavioral practices as an element of the official and informal portrait of students of the state labor reserves.
The methodological basis of the research was the system of social actions by T. Parsons, the concepts of variability of everyday practices by A. Ludtke and the dichotomy "norm/anomaly" in Soviet everyday life by N.B. Lebina. The work used a synthesis of macro- and micro-approaches of historical research aimed at identifying behavioral practices of an individual, based on the analysis of various sources: legal acts, administrative and other official documents, personal documents.   The results of the study are: 1) identification and classification of students' behavioral practices based on the structure of social action (on individual acts, procedures and strategies of behavior), on the content of activity, frequency of application and attitude to public institutions; 2) development and description of a structural and functional model of behavioral practice containing control and correction functions (on the example of the practice of non-attendance of classes by students); 3) identification and substantiation of the features of behavioral practices from the point of view of markers of the socio-cultural portrait of students of labor reserves (interconnectedness, dynamism, dependence on the type of educational institution).
The results of the research can be used in the study of everyday life and socio-cultural portrait of students in the Soviet period.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the possibilities of a prosopographic database for studying the problems of gender representation of women in senior diplomatic positions. The authors characterize the structure of the database "Women diplomats in newly independent States in the former USSR (1991-2022)" and analyze the information contained therein. The analysis of the database data is aimed at identifying a number of significant characteristics of the social portrait of women diplomats of post-Soviet states (quantitative indicators in relation to various time periods and states, the ratio between career and non-professional diplomats, the distribution of ambassadors by host countries, the average age of appointment to the post of ambassador and other temporary indicators of professional career, the availability of professional education and the degree of proficiency in foreign languages). The problem-oriented approach to database design provided a flexible presentation of relevant information from sources diverse in structure and content and an effective analysis of the main characteristics of the social portrait of female diplomats (on the one hand, as a gender-homogeneous professional group, and on the other hand, as a nationally heterogeneous aggregate). Conclusions are formulated about the features of the social portrait of women diplomats of post-Soviet states based on the dynamics of the number, professional education, indicators of labor activity in senior diplomatic positions. The article identifies three groups of States with different models of gender representation in the diplomatic service.

Abstract: The article describes the conceptual model and the structure of the database on the history of vocational education in Sverdlovskaya Oblast in the 1920s-1950s. The database systematizes and generalizes the main indicators of the development dynamics of vocational education in the region on the basis of a wide range of mass sources. These indicators are organizational, industrial, economical, socio-demographic and behavioral ones. Particular attention is paid to describe the database in terms of its ability to systematize, analyze and group information on the history of work training in the region that is the number of students, the employment of graduates, the dynamics of the educational institutions network, etc. The research novelty is the original structure of the database as an information product for multipurpose use which, first of all, provides for the effective systematization of primary information from various types of mass sources and the creation of a model of historical data on the vocational training system in Sverdlovskaya Oblast. The authors attempt to generalize their practice to digitize, systematize, analyze and synthesize archival vocational education data and formulate the principles to create and use the local historical database within the digital humanities context: complexity, task-orientation, integration, etc.