Formation and Evolution of Economic Education at the Irkutsk State University. 1918 – Beginning of the 1930th

Prerequisites of emergence of the higher economic education in Eastern Siberia are considered. On the basis of contemporary records and the published sources the author established the personal faculty and its changes for more than ten years, training programs in objects of business cycle, a technique of teaching subject matters. It is noted that economic disciplines began to be taught at the Irkutsk state university from the first day of its education. The conclusion is drawn that economic education passed various forms: from economic offices of humanitarian faculty and faculty of social sciences to independent faculty of the right and local economy. The settled model of financial and economic education finally was created at faculty of the right and local economy. There were personnel of teachers meeting the requirements of the higher school, scientific research was conducted, teaching was carried out on the approved programs, various methods of training were used, techniques were approved. The faculty made several releases of experts. As a result, to the reform of the higher education undertaken at a boundary of 1920-h–1930-h the faculty was closed. The Siberian financial and economic institute, nowadays Baikal state university became the successor of the higher economic education in the region for the long period.