The article deals with the issues of development of the andragogic paradigm in the historical context, gives the analysis of the adults teaching experience widely used in the USSR in the process of establishment and development of territorial and production complexes. The author gives the classification of the traditional and innovational forms of education used in the Soviet period. The features of adults teaching in the considered period are described.

Based on the archival information there are considered the integration forms of higher schools and enterprises. The territorial and production complexes of the 1980s are regarded as the prototypes of the modern production and educational clusters. There is described the experience gained by the Soviet higher school in making agreements of creative community, scientific research and state budget work, implementing the results into production that may be extrapolated to the new market conditions.