Andrey A. Grinko

The exacerbation of personnel challenges in Russian universities manifested in the reduction and aging of faculty, disruption of generational succession, and a shortage of young educators motivated to build a career within an educational organization necessitates the development and implementation of comprehensive measures to ensure sustainable personnel reproduction. The aim of the article is to develop and substantiate a model for nurturing a university talent pool from among promising young people studying at the levels of general, secondary vocational and higher education, based on a systemic approach. The theoretical foundation of the research comprises works by Russian and foreign authors on human resources policy issues in higher education. The empirical base includes observational data, surveys, and in-depth interviews conducted by the authors in 2023–2025 at universities in the Amur Region. Within the systemic approach, the university is considered as a system, and the student as an element integrated into the faculty through managed processes. The main result of the study is a three-tiered model for early identification and support of promising youth developed by the authors: 1) pre-university stage (identifying talented schoolchildren and college students); 2) university stage (engaging students in research and project-based activities); 3) mentoring stage (integration into teaching practice). The model is implemented through four interrelated elements: identification, development, motivation, and adaptation of students. Key barriers to implementing the model have been identified: bureaucratization, excessive instructional workload, motivational issues among experienced educators, and the lack of a holistic personnel strategy in some universities. The theoretical significance of the work lies in generalizing the experience of forming university talent pools and systematizing approaches to working with potential educators. The practical significance consists in proposing a specific model and toolkit for the systematic reproduction of teaching staff, starting from the school stage, which can be used by university administrations when developing a personnel strategy for the educational organization.

The relevance of the topic is determined by the special importance of the figure of a teacher of the Humanities in the higher education system, taking into account modern realities and the exceptional importance of further development of national identity and patriotism among young people. The purpose of the article is to analyze the position of a teacher of the Humanities in the Russian educational institution of higher education of non-humanitarian (major) orientation. To achieve this goal, a systematic approach and a number of theoretical methods (comparison, analysis, synthesis, analogy, statistical analysis) were used. The empirical basis of the work was the research work (in the form of observation, questioning and interviewing) conducted in 2022-2023 in the universities of the city of Blagoveshchensk, Amur region. The results of the work allow us to conclude that, despite the gradual understanding of the special role of humanitarian subjects (especially history) in the formation of a solid citizen, the Humanities teachers still remain a secondary, «peripheral» part against the background of major disciplines teachers. The authors note the need to change the position of this category of teachers and improve their status, taking into account current domestic and international trends. The theoretical significance of the work consists in considering the specifics of the status and professional activity of a humanitarian teacher, identifying the main trends in the transformation of his/her position, as well as factors affecting the effectiveness and stability of teaching staff, such as the preparedness and motivation of the student contingent, the position of the university administration in relation to the Humanities disciplines, the volume of the work performed, opportunities for career and personal growth, and others. The practical significance of the work consists in identifying the inconsistency of the status of a humanitarian teacher. On the one hand, adherence to traditional values and awareness of their pedagogical mission is maintained, thanks to the policy of the state and the administration of universities, the average level of material well-being of teachers is increasing, the technical equipment of workplaces and classrooms is gradually improving, but, on the other hand, it is found that the position of teachers is unstable, opportunities for professional development are limited, and a significant working load being complicated with other types of work does not allow them to actualize fully. These factors lead to a decrease in the quality of work and professional deformations.

The article is devoted to the review of native historiography of financial position of agricultural workers from 1970 to the first half of 1980. The researches of the Soviet and modern Russian historians, economists and sociologists, who played the important role in formation and development of historiography of rural activity are analyzed.