The article reveals the features of the spatial development of the system of higher and secondary vocational education in the Irkutsk region. Two key stages are analyzed: the Soviet one, which formed the main frame of the territorial structure of vocational education, and the modern one, which saw periods of both the rapid growth of the number of higher educational institutions and the optimization of the higher education network. The results of the study show that the spatial development of the systems of higher and secondary vocational education in recent years in the Irkutsk region is multi-directional: centripetal movement in the top-level subsystem, due to the reduction in the network of branches in municipal centers, and the gradual dispersal of the network of secondary education institutions at the expense of agricultural and industrial regions of the region. A comparative analysis of the trends in the development of vocational education in the Irkutsk region with the national and situation in other regions allows us to note that in the higher education system they are almost identical, since they occur as a result of structural and institutional transformations at the state level. For the Irkutsk region, as well as other regions of Russia with a predominantly industrial type of economy, growth trends are characteristic, caused by the needs of the market.

Zelenyuk Julia Mikhailovna, Candidate of Science (Geography), Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Cartography and Geosystem Technologies, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., 664003, Irkutsk, Russian Federation. e-mail: zelenyuk.jm@yandex.ru

Salatin Sergey Alexandrovich, Student, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., 664003, Irkutsk, Russian Federation, e-mail: serzhik19vision@gmail.com

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