This article is devoted to the study of the training of engineering and technical personnel for the textile industry of the USSR. In the conditions of the third five-year plan, it has acquired particular urgency, since the textile workers of the country were tasked with significantly increasing production capacity in order to ensure the growth of output for the civilian population and technical fabrics. To do this, it was necessary not only to smooth out the consequences of the mass repressions of 1937-1938 in relation to managers and engineering and technical workers of factories and plants, but also to train a huge number of highly qualified specialists for the textile industry. The implementation of the task was carried out in conditions of an acute shortage of educational facilities, their congestion, as well as a shortage of dormitories for students and housing for the teaching staff of higher technical educational institutions. Important attention was paid to the activities of scientific research institutes, their relations with enterprises, and the introduction of scientific developments into production. Despite the creation of new textile districts in Western Siberia, Central Asia and Transcaucasia, the training of engineering and technical personnel was still carried out in Moscow, Leningrad and Ivanovo. The creation of new higher education institutions was hindered by the lack of capital investments, the lack of material and technical base, scientific and teaching staff, as well as the presence of other problems. Nevertheless, the system of scientific research institutions, higher technical educational institutions, industrial academies and technical schools that existed in the pre-war period made it possible to train a large number of qualified specialists, to form the ranks of the Soviet scientific and technical intelligentsia.

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The present study is dedicated to the memory of Professor Nikolai P. Beschastnov — an outstanding scientist, art critic, artist. The authors perform analysis of his creative and scientific heritage and consider the scientific contribution of his works to the development of art and creative practice in artistic design activity. The analysis focuses on a series of scientific articles and textbooks for students of creative directions, such as: “Painting,” “Black and White Graphics,” “Graphics of a Landscape,” “Graphics of a Human Figure,” “Graphics of a Still Life,” “Basics of Composition,” “Color Graphics,” “Subject graphics,” “Artistic language of ornament,” “Textile photographic drawing,” “History and design methodology,” “Methods of graphic presentation of clothing models,” “Methods of artistic design of textile design.” Each work describes not just a methodology, but provides a holistic picture that reflects the essence of the phenomenon, shows their organic connection with the evolution of the world outlook and the development of scientific ideas of mankind. An indisputably valuable was the activity of Nikolai Petrovich, aimed at the formation of a unique approach to art education in higher educational institutions, the synthesis of research and artistic and creative approach, which corresponds to world trends in the education system. The paper also highlights main goals and objectives of the educational process according to N. P. Beschastnov.