FORMATION AHD DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE 1950s

The article is devoted to the analysis of formation and development aspects of students’ research activity in pedagogical universities in the 1950s. The geographical boundaries of the study are the modern territory of the Volga Federal District. The period of the late 1940s and early 1950s was a stage of students’ science formation in universities. The student science society and the science circle became the main organizational forms of students’ research activity. Based on the study of the state and university normative documents, universities’ plans and reports of those years, the author draws conclusions about the main peculiarities of the organization of students’ scientific activity and problems of development of the direction. The basic requirements for a student science society member are described. The importance of such forms of work as review-competition of student scientific works and student scientific conference is considered. In addition, the author analyzes the subject matter of students’ research works and attempts to highlight several main areas of choice of the subject matter of research.