函授教育是苏联成人教育的一种主要形式。它具有起步早,泛围广,各级教育相结合等特点,形成了一整套函授教育体系,为苏联培养了一大批各行各业的技术骨干。早在十九世纪末和二十世纪初的俄国,一些进步学者、社会活动家和团体组织为了创立自修考试制度,出版了各种各样的教材和科普及专业性刊物。 Correspondence education is a major form of adult education in the Soviet Union. It has the characteristics of early start, extensive coverage and combination of education at all levels. It has formed a set of correspondence education system and has trained a large number of technical cadres of all walks of life for the Soviet Union. As early as the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Russia, some progressive scholars, social activists and group organizations published a variety of teaching materials and popular and professional publications in order to establish a self-study examination system.