Abstract
Based on historical, pedagogical and archival sources, the article analysed the state of national schools and the problem of training of pedagogical personnel in Kazakhstan in the 20-30 years of the 20 century. The authors reveal difficult and contradictory conditions for the formation and development of national schools in the early years of Soviet power. The general difficulties in the organization and operation of national schools were the weak educational and methodological provision of education in the native language for students, the scarce educational and material base and the acute shortage of national pedagogical personnel. The article highlights the development of the ethnic component in the content of the education of national schools and in the system of teacher training, as well as the problem of their educational provision. The authors of the article analyzed archival sources, which contain information on the content of teacher training for national schools KazPI named after Abai, the first forge of pedagogical personnel with higher education, described the network of training of national pedagogical personnel in Kazakhstan and beyond in the 20th30th years of the 20 century.