COURSE OF STUDY AND POLICIES OF METALLURGICAL TECHNIKUM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040243-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 243
• Publication Date: July 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY uses
SUBJECT CO UM of study and Policies of
Metallurgical Technikum
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1. Concerning the method of selection of students at Metallurgical Technikum
in Mariapol, any student who had completed the ten-year high school or the
four-year technical school and who had passed an entrance examination was
eligible to stuffy at the schoci. Tha selects ors standard was practically
the same for all institutions with the exception of a non-technical school),
such as schools for bookkeeping, econcmdes, administration, etc. Selection
of students in these institutions war lees standardized.
2. Political affiliations and economic position had little to do with selection
of students in Metallurgical Tech-aikun, Practically all youths were membera
of the Komsomol or the Co=mist party. Nearly all students received some
sort of stipend. Scholastic standing influenced selection of students only
in that those with highar standings received larger stipends. Also those
students who were exceptionally goo! or. their entrance examinations received
larger stipends. Up to 1940, there were some students who had to pay in
part for their tuition.
3. In only very rare instances did a 9.tIe=ut have s choice of an institution.
For the most part, students were assigned to institutions which were a part
of the Ministry of Heavy Industry or part of the Ministry of Light Industry,
wherever the need was greatest. Constant propaganda by the Communist Party
decreed what institution a student must sttend ` 1 7, istr of :~
Industry had metallurgical institutes located in Moscow, Dnepropetrovsk,
Mariapol, and Stalingrad. In 1936, three thousand students were in the four
institute
s.
4. There was never a shortage of textbooks and students had available as many
as were nsaded The hook
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good Illustrations and a good quantity of various, problems. to
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