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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8674</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-8690</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">52485</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8674-2026-25-3-654-666</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">BAIQWO</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИСТОЧНИКИ И МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ ИСТОРИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Hungarian Students in Kazan State Pedagogical Institute in 1949-1955: Based on Personal Files</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Венгерские студенты в Казанском государственном педагогическом институте в 1949-1955 годах: по материалам личных дел</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4442-4580</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">8395-8264</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Malysheva</surname><given-names>Svetlana Yu.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Малышева</surname><given-names>Светлана Юрьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dr. Habil. Hist., Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian History and Archival Studies of the Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор исторических наук, профессор, профессор кафедры отечественной истории и архивоведения Института международных отношений, истории и востоковедения</p></bio><email>Svetlana.Malycheva@kpfu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5498-1401</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">5738-6065</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Salnikova</surname><given-names>Alla A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сальникова</surname><given-names>Алла Аркадьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dr. Habil. Hist., Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian History and Archival Studies of the Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор исторических наук, профессор, профессор кафедры отечественной истории и архивоведения Института международных отношений, истории и востоковедения</p></bio><email>Alla.Salnikova@kpfu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-09-29" publication-format="electronic"><day>29</day><month>09</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 25, NO3 (2026)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 25, №3 (2026)</issue-title><fpage>654</fpage><lpage>666</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-09-28"><day>28</day><month>09</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Malysheva S.Y., Salnikova A.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Малышева С.Ю., Сальникова А.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Malysheva S.Y., Salnikova A.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Малышева С.Ю., Сальникова А.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/52485">https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/52485</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article examines the composition and content of 27 personal files of Hungarian students who studied at the Kazan State Pedagogical Institute in 1949-1955. The sources represent surviving personal files not transferred to state storage, which are stored in the Department of Russian History and Archival Science at Kazan Federal University. The personal files allow reconstructing the gender, age, and social composition of the Hungarian scholarship recipients, their political preferences, level of activity, and details of their biographies prior to arriving in the USSR. It is shown that these were predominantly 20-yearold young men and women, primarily of working-class and peasant origin, activists, often members of the Communist Youth League, who had prepared for their studies in the USSR at the Oleg Koshevoy School in Budapest. Most of them studied in the Physics, Mathematics, and History departments, and despite the fact that in the literature it was pointed out that foreigners had academic difficulties in the USSR, they demonstrated relatively high academic results. There are presented three biographies of former Kazan students who made successful careers in Hungary: Istvan Tabor, head of the Hungarian Fencing Federation; Andor Frenkel, a physicist and founder and first head of the theoretical department of the Budapest Central Physics Research Institute; and Frenc Szabo, a diplomat. It is concluded that, despite the formalization and limited information in the personal files, they have a significant source potential, allowing for creating a general portrait of Hungarian students at a Soviet university in the late 1940s - mid-1950s and complementing the biographies of several prominent Hungarian figures of the Soviet era. They may be of use in reconstructing the postwar history of Soviet-Hungarian relations.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Рассматривается состав, содержание и познавательные возможности 27-ми личных дел венгерских студентов, учившихся в Казанском государственном педагогическом институте в 1949-1955 гг. Источники представляют собой случайно уцелевшую часть не переданных на государственное хранение личных дел, хранящихся на кафедре отечественной истории и архивоведения Казанского федерального университета. Личные дела позволяют реконструировать половозр астной, социальный состав венгерских стипендиатов, их политические предпочтения, степень активности, детали их биографии до приезда в СССР. Показано, что это были преимущественно 20-летние юноши и девушки, в основном рабоче-крестьянского происхождения, активисты, нередко состоявшие в коммунистическом союзе молодежи, прошедшие подготовку к учебе в СССР в школе имени Олега Кошевого в Будапеште. Большинство их обучались на физико-математическом и историческом факультетах, причем, несмотря на указания в литературе на проблемы с успеваемостью у иностранцев в СССР, показывали довольно высокие результаты в учебе. Приведены три биографии успешной карьеры в Венгрии бывших казанских студентов - главы Венгерской федерации фехтования Иштвана Табора, ученого-физика, создателя и первого руководителя теоретического отделения Будапештского центрального научно-исследовательского института физики Андора Френкеля, дипломата Френца Сабо. Делается вывод, что, несмотря на формализацию и ограниченность информации личных дел, они обладают значимым источниковым потенциалом, позволяющим создать усредненный портрет венгерского студента советского вуза конца 1940-х - середины 1950-х гг., дополнить биографии ряда видных венгерских деятелей советской эпохи. Они могут быть востребованы при реконструкции послевоенной истории советско-венгерских отношений.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>cultural ties</kwd><kwd>higher education</kwd><kwd>student academic mobility</kwd><kwd>foreign cultural environment</kwd><kwd>personal history</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>культурные связи</kwd><kwd>высшее образование</kwd><kwd>студенческая академическая мобильность</kwd><kwd>инокультурная среда</kwd><kwd>персональная история</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Balog, J. and Forgács, P. “Frenkel Andor és Hraskó Péter XC [Andor Frenkel and Péter Hraskó XC].” Fizikai Szemle 73, no. 6 (2003): 216–217 (in Hungarian).</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Алексеев А.А. 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