THE PROBLEM OF STAFFING LAND MANAGEMENT WORKS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE KYIV BRANCH OF THE PEASANT LAND BANK)

Abstract

The article analyzes the process of creating land surveying organizations for general and special surveying in the Russian Empire. Based on already published research, the structure of institutions that were engaged in surveying, the features of the work of land surveyors in Ukrainian provinces, and the main tasks assigned to boundary offices and drawing rooms are determined. The emergence and formation of educational institutions that trained specialists for conducting land surveying and drawing up plans of surveyed and demarcated lands is characterized. It is noted that the tsarist government was little concerned with the creation of such educational institutions: only at the beginning of the 19th century. a school of land surveyors was opened in Ukraine at the Volyn gymnasium, and only from the second half of the 19th century. at agricultural and agricultural schools, which were beginning to open at this time, teaching of special disciplines, in particular geodesy, was introduced. It is emphasized that in higher educational institutions, which had agricultural departments, specialists in the field of land management were not trained. It is noted that the revolutionary situation at the beginning of the 20th century led to an increase in the land fund of the Peasant Bank. Which was created for the sale of landowners’ lands. In this regard, attention is focused on the fact that due to the lack of specialists in land management, the bank’s management suggested to the director of the KPI to create a special artel from students who had already completed courses in special disciplines for further work on the delimitation of bank lands. It is emphasized that the provincial authorities, having conducted a preliminary check of the students, refused to form such an artel on the pretext that these students were "politically unreliable". It is noted that with the beginning of the Stolypin agrarian reform, the situation with the provision of specialists for land management commissions, which in the future were to bear the main burden of land management work, was never resolved.