I am working on a background for a new RPG character. I have some flexibility in dates, but I am a bit confused and am trying to map everything out. My character is a female scientist who specializes in plasma physics. Her power armor is powered by a Tokamak Reactor. I would like her to have studied under or been mentored by Lev Artsimovich who
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As I know the Ioffe Institute is a research institute, not education one. So there are no students there, but she can be a postgraduate student.
The structure of soviet high education.
Graduate - 5-6 years
Postgraduate (candidate or PhD by american system) - 3,5 year
Often the postgraduate that period was possible only after 2 or three years of work. But if she was very smart and good in physics she could get the possibility of postgraduate just after the high education was finished and theoretically she could work with Artsimovich was beeing a student as the low level employee.
I think it will be more realistic to make her be born a little bit earlier, for instance, 1946-1948.
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>>Shortly we had
>>1. Secondary school - 8 or 10 (then 9 or 11 years)
wasn't it 7 back then? Rather then 8?
>>2. after 8 (9) years a person could go to the something like college where he/she got secondary and professional education. Of course this kind of education could be got after the secondary one (10 or 11 years). These were professions like nurse, hairdresser, locksmith etc.
I think in the closest thing they have in the US is the vocational school. Or had, having never encountered one I am not sure. But basically it would be like a high school plus vocational training plus some college-level classes, close to the Associate degree. If you went to college after graduating from one, you would be allowed to skip couple of years.
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I haven't got a lot of information about US educational structure. So I think you are right:)
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Vocational school is something I keep reading about, but never met anyone who went there in the recent 10 or so years, so I am thinking it might be extinct :)
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Anyway, the secondary education was obligatory, so 10 or 11 years of education were mandatory anywhere they were provided in a school or in a 'college'.
Those who went to work just after 7 or 8 or 9 years of school had to finish their education in a 'evening school' (after or before a work depending on labour hours).
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That, of course, is a moot point, because becoming a turner's apprentice and then taking high school diploma exams seems like an unnecessarily scenic route to becoming a phisicist :)))
Also, are you sure about the 11 years? My Mom seems to remember 9 becoming 10, but not 11. When did it go back to 10, then?
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Yes, I'm sure about 11 years. The soviet post war secondary education had several points of changes.
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