Moses Mikhailovich Pistrak ( 1888 - 1937 ) - Soviet teacher, doctor of pedagogical sciences; organizer of public education in the USSR . He introduced the concept of "polytechnism", which included not only professional knowledge, but personal qualities of a person, corresponding to the needs of industrial production. He defended the variety of forms of involving children in labor, the first to raise the question of the development and study in school of the main branches of production. [one]
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| Date of Birth | September 3 (15), 1888 |
| Place of Birth | Kamyanets-Podilsky , Podolsk province Russian empire |
| Date of death | December 25, 1937 (49 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | teacher |
Biography
He was born on September 3 ( September 15, according to a new style) in 1888 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Podolsk province, in a Jewish family.
In 1914 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Warsaw . But he began teaching activities in 1906, teaching in private schools in Warsaw .
After the October Revolution , in 1918-1931 he worked in the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR and at the same time led the Moscow experimental-demonstrative school commune. P.N. Lepeshinsky. In 1924 he joined the RCP (b) / CPSU , among those who recommended him to the party were F. E. Dzerzhinsky , N. K. Krupskaya , A. A. Solts . [2] In 1925, Pistrak led the program-methodical subsection and the commission for second-level schools in the scientific and pedagogical section of the State Academic Council (GUS). In 1931-1936 he was the head of the department, then - vice-rector for scientific work and rector of the North Caucasus University in Rostov-on-Don . In 1934, he led the North Caucasian Research Institute of Pedagogy. In 1936-1937, M. M. Pistrak worked as a director of the Central Research Institute of Pedagogy at the Higher Communist Institute of Education. He lived in Moscow in the 2nd Obydensky lane, 9.
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He was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activity and executed on December 25, 1937 . Rehabilitated posthumously in 1956. The cenotaph is installed at the Vostryakovsky cemetery (it shows the year of death - 1940) [3] .
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- PISTRAK MOSEY MIKHAILOVICH // Moscow Encyclopedia. / Ch. ed. S.O. Schmidt . - M. , 2007-2014. - T. Volume I. Faces of Moscow : [in 6 books].
- Moses Mikhailovich Pistrak
- Jews in the Don land