The Recent Trend of Geography Education in the Soviet Union

Abstract

The writer has tried a short review of geography education of middle schools in the Soviet Union using Russian materials including the course of study prepared by the Ministry of Education, textbooks and teaching manuals on geography. The contents of geography course consist of two main parts, physical and economic geography. Both of them are discussed in terms of systematic and regional aspects through the whole course of the middle school. This fact is, in one sense, a refleation of the todays dominant trend of science of geography in general in the Soviet Union.
The chief cause which underlies this trend in both academic and educational fields is considered as the present politico-economic demand in order to facilitate the nation-wide development of the natural resources and the rapid industrialization of the country.