Features of the management activities of A.M. Pozdneev, the founder of oriental studies in the Far East of Russia (late XIX – early XX centuries)

Far Eastern Federal University, 8 Sukhanova Str., 690090, Vladivostok, Russia

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the management activities of professor-orientalist A.M. Pozdneev, the first director of Oriental Institute in Vladivostok, who also served as the head of the Vladivostok Men’s Gymnasium. The study was conducted in the context of the problem of the formation and development of oriental studies in the Russian Far East. It highlights the role of the directorial body in the management of two different educational institutions is particularly important The paper also shows the difficulties of the director’s working conditions related to the specifics of the educational process at the university and the gymnasium, the difference in the contingent of students, which required the head to search for various scientific and pedagogical approaches, the ability to work with both the faculty of Oriental Institute and the pedagogical staff of the gymnasium, as well as the territorial remoteness of the Far Eastern outskirts from the center, which significantly complicated the organization and management and administrative activities of the director A.M. Pozdneev. It demonstrates the results of a hard work of Professor A.M. Pozdneev on the implementation of the state policy tasks in the field of development of higher oriental education in the Far East in the conditions of complex international relations with neighboring Asian states.