Primary School in the Life of the Zyryans in the late XIX - early XX centuries: the Transformation of Customary Legal Views; Начальная школа в жизни зырян в конце XIX – начале XX вв.: трансформация обычно-правовых воззрений

The functioning of the primary school in Komi, where in the late XIX - early XX centuries the Zyryans mainly lived, was closely interrelated not only with the cultural processes taking place in the region and in the state, but also with socio-political, socio-economic changes. Primary school was of great importance in the life of the Zyryans of the Yarensky and Ust-Sysolsky counties in the late XIX - early XX centuries. Moving away from the archaic views of the Komi peasants, they were well aware of the need for their children to receive primary education as the first educational step. At that time, education played an important role in the development of the Komi Region, which contributed to the acquisition of primary educational skills in writing, numeracy, reading, as well as raising the level of legal culture of the population, which in turn served as the basis for further development of the region. In turn, the state, paying considerable attention and taking special care of the development of education, including in Yarensky and Ust-Sysolsky counties. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.