LATE SOVIET PRACTICES OF TRAINING FOREIGN SPECIALISTS AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES IN THE FIELD OF PROFESSIONAL ART

Abstract

This article examines the subjects related to the practice of training foreign specialists in the field of stage and musical art that has developed in the USSR. The author presents data concerning the period of the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1980s, which allow us to determine the dynamics of the number of students from foreign countries, as well as the most priority areas of training chosen by foreign students and trainees. When studying these problems, mainly archival materials of the USSR Ministry of Culture were used, as well as published documents of the Department of Culture of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From the analysis of a number of cases, it can be concluded that during the period under review, educational exchange in the field of professional art was not only one of the priority points of agreements on cultural cooperation, but also became the defining form of training foreign specialists, both for developed capitalist and European socialist countries.