Abstract:
The article considers the questions of organization and methodological and material support of the educational process at primary schools of adult education in Sumy region in the 20–30s of the XX century. Based on the documents of the State Archives of Sumy region, the position of the points of liquidation of illiteracy in a certain period is analyzed and their financial and methodological support, the process of organizing student learning, forms and methods of teaching is characterized. There are also quotations from documents that fully illustrate the issue raised in the article. The authors of the article conclude that despite the insufficient financing and an imperfect system of material support for adult primary education institutions, a campaign to eliminate illiteracy had a positive result, which was manifested in increasing the number of literate people in the Sumy region, who learned to read and write in Ukrainian, which was, in its turn, of great importance for awakening the national consciousness of the Ukrainian population.
