In 1922, the Pedagogical Institute in Vyatka was named after V. I. Lenin. It is known that Vladimir Ilyich very rarely agreed to have his name assigned to enterprises and institutions. As for the Vyatka Pedagogical Institute, this fact has already been mentioned in the literature 1 . Let's look at it in more detail. Reflecting the desire of the staff, the board of the Vyatka Pedagogical Institute turned to Lenin with a corresponding request. It was supported by the gubkom of the party, gubispolkom and gubsovprof 2 . Biochronics notes that no earlier than October 23 and no later than November 4, 1922, "Lenin, through N. K. Krupskaya, agrees to assign the Vyatka Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin" 3 . Vyatka received a telegram from the People's Commissariat of Education: "Urgently. Vyatka. The party's sponge committee. To Alypov. Vladimir Ilyich gave the name of the pedagogical institute in his name " 4 . "Dear Vladimir Ilyich," the students and teachers wrote in response on November 8, 1922, " we, the institute members, give you our word of honor as proletarians to devote all our efforts to making the Institute worthy of your bright genius. We send you an open letter with a description of our work and our mood, and we instruct the Board of the Institute to personally make a report on the work of the Institute. Welcoming you, the leader of the world revolution, we declare that one of the happiest days of our lives will be the day when we will see you in the walls of our institute. " 5 December 5 Glavprofobr Board, "taking into account public-pedagogical and public-political work"On December 6, the Institute officially decided to give it the name of Lenin, and on December 9, the Presidium of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Education, "taking into account the received consent of com. Lenin"7, approved this decision. In 1924, in the article " What monument to build to Ilyich?" "Vyatskaya Pravda" wrote: "Vladimir Ilyich twice confirmed his consent to ... Читать далее