| Show RUSSIA FAR BEHIND WORLD peran It Ionta census ef of illiteracy constitute shown a by national na disgrace the 1110 last all fill russian national census carried out by the central statistical bureau or of the soviet ilet government covern ment out in august I 1 M showed the per pe r capita u of I 1 literacy for the entire populate population IM at fit 32 per cent says ay L J lewery lery in curent cu en rent Ill history la in other words ep people in russia out of I 1 1000 OW can cun neither read nor w rite IkIc luding children under ellet the pwen tare of illiteracy still 1 amounts to 00 per tr cent aa As Is the case in till all bac backward kiNard countries the female papu lags logs far behind the in male ale fly lo caUty it I 1 found that illiteracy increases centrifugally centi cent fugally from littard the outlying part parts of russia but more steeply in the eastern en stern direction toward sideria tte caucasus Cauca ens and the republica thus in the Sau larkan province of tan the totally illiterate population constitutes per cent of the total in russia proper there were reel regis te cerad areld totally illiterate per sons above the age of eight in the ukraine in the autonomous federated republic and anti so forth a crand grani total of 64 54 souls abalo school age by profession protea slun or occue the standard of literacy wa was found in the soviet army and in the navy taking the entire able bodied working population of nilet russia between the nees ages of sixteen and fifty thre were ere found 73 per cent of malea males and 36 per cent of females who can neither read or write or both |
