History of formation of the system of higher pedagogical education in the Irkutsk region

. The article is devoted to the history of the emergence and development of pedagogical educational institutions in the territory of the Irkutsk region (province). The formation of the main educational institutions of pedagogical profile is considered. There are four main historical periods of the formation of pedagogical education in the region: pre-revolutionary, Soviet (which includes 3 main stages: pre-war, military and post-war), the period of restructuring and modern. When examining each of the periods, it becomes obvious that educational institutions involved in the training of teachers are catalysts for the socio-economic development of the territory and the country as a whole. In the course of the study it was revealed that the development of higher pedagogical education in the region took place in line with the main trends of the modernization processes in Russian society. However, there were features of the historical and cultural development of the Irkutsk region, which determined the specificity of the solution of educational problems. The socio-economic processes that take place in the region and in Siberia as a whole have had a significant impact on the development of the system for training teachers. The study confirms that the development of pedagogical education in the Irkutsk region went and is in line with national trends, but has its own regional specifics. At present, there is an acute shortage of young teachers in the region, as well as specialists who meet the requirements of the unified professional standard of pedagogical workers, all this is happening against the background of a decrease in budgetary places in pedagogical institutions of higher education.