摘要:The paper examines the activities of the Petrozavodsk Female Teachers' Seminary in 1915–1917. The attention is paid to the teaching and student staff, its national and religious contingent.The authors used documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation) as materials. The documents were first introduced into scientific circulation. The methodology of the research is based on the historical and chronological principle, which allowed us to consider the history of the Petrozavodsk Women's Teachers' Seminary with the involvement of all available archival materials in chronological order and taking into account neighboring events. Due to the fact that statistical information is also presented in the study, we used a statistical method, thanks to which we analyzed data with numerical expression (on the composition of teachers and students both in the teachers' seminary and at the two-grade school at it).In conclusion, the authors state that the Petrozavodsk Women's Teaching Seminary, established at the height of the First World War, was important both for increasing the number of teaching staff in primary schools and for the availability of teaching positions for women in the region. Despite the fact that the seminary originated in wartime conditions, the teaching staff coped quite professionally not only with academic, but also extracurricular work. Teachers and students of the seminary actively participated in actions to raise funds for the needs of the war and in helping the wounded. Besides this, the leadership of the seminary provided significant assistance to needy students.