TEKHNIKUMS

TEKHNIKUMS, both secondary and vocational educational institutions for training specialists in various industries, as well as health care, culture and education. Created in the 1920s. Since the 2nd half of the 1930s many T. had been transformed into uchilishche. Since the early 1990s — into colleges. In Bashkortostan, in 1925 there were 13 T., incl. Orenburg Bashk. Pedagogical T., Priuralsky Chuvash Pedagogical T., etc; in 1985 — 33, in 2005 — 25 and in 2009 — 35 (12 of them are private).