Vasil Pavlovich Tepin and his «History of the Belarusian State University»

Authors

  • Oleg I. Maliugin Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5848-5918
  • Aleh A. Yanouski Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

Vasil Pavlovich Tepin, Belarusian State University, higher education, Nazi occupation, Rosenberg’s archives
Supporting Agencies
The work was carried out as part of subproblem 779/91 of the State Program of Scientific Research for 2016–2020 «Economics and humanitarian development of Belarusian society» (subprogram «History and Culture»).

Abstract

The life, scientific and pedagogical activities of Vasil Pavlovich Tepin, one of the organizer of the Belarusian State University, are considered in this article. As a dean of the faculty of pre-university education and later – associate professor at the pedagogical faculty – he published number of scientific and methodical works, made a significant contribution not only to the formation of university education, but also in the development of the Belarusian high school. V. P. Tepin was one of the victims of Stalin repressions of 1930s. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he stayed in Minsk and worked in the School Department of local administration. During the German occupation, he wrote his last work, «History of the Belarusian State University», in which he outlined his assessment of the events that preceded the creation of the university, the history of the first years of the BSU activities, his attitude to a number of teachers and political leaders of Belarus during the interwar period. The memoirs of V. P. Tepin, taken in comparison with the memoirs of other BSU staff and students of those two decades, help to reconstruct in more details the little-studied pages of the history of the first Belarusian university.

Author Biographies

  • Oleg I. Maliugin, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (history), docent; associate professor at the department of ancient and medieval history, faculty of history

  • Aleh A. Yanouski, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (history), full professor; head of the department of Russian history, faculty of history

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2019-11-01

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No. 4 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

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Belarusian State University Celebrates 100th Anniversary

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Maliugin, O.I. and Yanouski, A.A. 2019. Vasil Pavlovich Tepin and his «History of the Belarusian State University». Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 4 (Nov. 2019), 82–94. DOI:https://doi.org/10.33581/2520-6338-2019-4-82-94.