The article deals with the process of preparing students for tourism and local history activities. The need to develop students ’ skills in tourism and local history activities is justified by the need to develop components of universal competence specified in the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education (FSES HE). The pedagogical conditions necessary for preparing future teachers for tourism and local history activities in higher education are determined. The skills that students should master in the process of preparing for the implementation of tourist and local history activities are highlighted.

The article researches the process of historical memory formation and the role of museum spaces in it. The authors consider the use of letters from the front as the means of commemoration. The issues of commemoration and re-commemoration, museum reflection and its influence on historical memory are studied. Special attention is paid to museumification of front letters and memoires of war workers. The authors consider the new possibilities of using them in museum displays using multimedia technologies, emphasizing the higher accessibility of the letters’ content in multimedia. The research novelty consists in the cross-disciplinary view of a historical source through the prism of museum space. The authors show the properties and possibilities of narrative sources which are now available due to modern technologies. The unpublished ego-documents (private letters and memoires) from museum funds were studied and described. The research topicality is due to identification of the influence of written museum exhibits on the formation and socialization of historical memory. It is proved that the personal materials in a museum display using modern technical opportunities enhance the informative effect, stimulating commemoration and facilitating the formation of historical memory. The article employs the experience of fund, exhibition and excursion work of the Museum of the history of Gorky railroad development.

The article deals with the issues of personnel training for the Chuvash ASSR, held at Gorky Higher Party School from 1946 to 1991. It is stated that Gorky one-year party school and interregional courses established during the Great Patriotic War laid the foundations for the development of party education, became the base of creating Gorky Higher Party School. The analysis of documents kept at the State Social and Political Archive of Nizhny Novgorod region demonstrates that on August 12, 1946, the Bureau of Gorky Regional Committee of the VKP (b) made the decision to create Gorky Regional Party School, which was to train top staffers for seven regions and four autonomous republics of the Volga region, including the Chuvash region. Already in 1951 the Chuvash regional committee of the ACP (b) sent 15 Soviet employees who, in accordance with the nomenclature of positions, were the closest reserve of the party leadership at the municipal and regional level. In the future, their number increased to 20–25 people annually. By the end of the 1950s, the problem of staff shortage in party and Soviet workers is replaced by the need for advanced training through the course system for a part of party and Soviet workers, which was implemented in the early 1960s. This resulted at first in a slight decrease in the number of attendees from the Chuvash ASSR in party school, but beginning with the mid-1960s the number of Chuvash attendees steadily increased. The following years are marked by a significant development of the correspondence department, as well as inter-regional courses of party and Soviet workers. In 1979, a study support center was opened in Cheboksary. In connection with this, in the subsequent 1970–1980s the contingent of attendees from the Chuvash ASSR significantly decreased. At the same time, training through correspondence department and inter-regional courses increased. Retraining of personnel at interregional courses was carried out, including in the form of practical classes, where the Party and Soviet establishment figures of the Chuvash ASSR spoke to the attendees in the relevant specialties. In the 1980s, the flow of interregional courses was practiced on the basis of regional governing bodies, including in the Chuvash regional party organization. This form of training facilitated the exchange of managerial experience and was welcomed by the attendees.

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