Rector-creator: To the 90th anniversary of the Honorary Rector of Samara State Pedagogical University A.A. Semashkin (1933–2023)

The article is devoted to the life and work of the Honorary Rector of Samara State Pedagogical University Anatoly Alekseevich Semashkin. The way of his professional formation is shown: from an assistant at the Department of History of the CPSU to the dean of the Faculty of Public Professions of the Kuybyshev State Polytechnical Institute, head of the Department of History of the CPSU and Political Economy, secretary of the Party Committee of the CPSU in Kuybyshev State Institute of Railway Engineers and rector of the Kuybyshev State Pedagogical Institute. The research work of A.A. Semashkin is considered. The article analyzes his policy as rector for the development of Kuybyshev State Pedagogical Institute in the leading pedagogical university of the country (1984–2000). The business and personal qualities of Anatoly Alekseevich Semashkin, his pedagogical principles, personnel, social and youth policy, the system of patriotic education and the formation of the principles of selfgovernment in the labor collective are highlighted. The work of Semashkin by the Kuybyshev/Samara regional branch of the Soviet/Russian Children’s Fund is shown. Semashkin’s contribution to the development of the pedagogical cluster of the Samara Region, to the preservation and modernization of the system of higher educational institutions of the region is reflected. The clash of the traditional model of domestic education with pro Western scholasticism is reflected. The work has been prepared on the basis of generalization and analysis of a wide range of sources.