| Education Info in Short The Republic has a huge educational
potential. - There are 750 preschool institutions, 681 state
daytime general education institutions and 19 extra-mural ones;
- Over 60 institutions of elementary and intermediate vocational
education; - 8 autonomous state higher education institutions; -
14 branches of Republican and Russian higher education
institutions; - 9 branches of non-governmental higher education
institutions. Training of specialists with elementary vocational
education is conducted in 73 professions for 24 branches of
economy; training of specialists with intermediate vocational
education is conducted in 77 different fields for 12 key
branches of the Republic's economy. Yakutsk State University
named after Maxim Ammosov is one of the largest higher education
institutions of Siberia; about 19 thousand students study there
in four consolidated groups of specialist fields. Yakutsk State
University includes 7 institutes, 10 faculties, and 2 branches
in the towns of Mirny and N