The article deals with the establishment of pedagogical universities of the Lower Volga region in the 1930s. The author analyzes the features of the organization of institute work, highlights the characteristic features of their development, traces the impact of the state educational policy on the reform of the system of management of teacher training universities.

There is considered the consistent policy of the Soviet Union directed at the end of the Second World War; given the characteristics of the military operations of the USSR against Japan in the period of 9 August - 2 September 1945, analyzed the role of the commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern strategic direction A.M. Vasilevsky in the defeat of the Kwantung Army