PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE PRIDNESTROVIAN MOLDAVIAN REPUBLIC IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY

Abstract

The article is the first excursion into the emergence of a stock of preschool institutions in Pridnestrovye (Transnistria). Kindergarten construction and operation in the pre-war (1922–1941) and post-war (1945–1960) periods is analyzed retrospectively. The surviving Prednestrovian preschool institutions are distinguished and characterized as pertaining to either standard or unconventional design. Modernizations over time were revealed during a field survey and study of archival information and retraced historically.