The article presents the difficulties faced by Tyumen teachers AT the end of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR. The purpose of the study is to study the state of Tyumen education, as well as to identify problems in the activities of teachers in the post-war period. The author has relied on the following research methods: historical-structural (identifying pedagogical connections within the school system) and historical-comparative (comparing and contrasting various historical periods in the development of school education).

This study considers the main stages of the Tyumen Region teacher training education described from the Abolition of Serfdom in 1861, and presented nowadays. The range of sources is supposed to be wide enough, and represented by the following main groups, i.e. legislative acts, office documentation, statistics materials, periodicals in the resource database. The archival documents are analyzed at the Tyumen Region Fund of State Archive (GATO). The author presents the five main periods investigated as pre-institutional, institutional, university, reconstructing, and current Scholarship.