The research reports the ratings of educational attainments in Russian Federation. These ratings was estimated from the data on average scores obtained in the United State Exam by persons, accepted to universities and institution for tertiary education for free in the Russian Federation in the year 2014, and available data on regional results of the United State Exam. These ratings was positively correlated with regional PISA 2015 results (0,52), urbanization (0,52), net migration (0,35) and the percentage of ethnic Russians (0,59), and negatively – with fertility and infant mortality.
Also the study includes the relationship between the educational achievements of the regions of the Russian Federation and the literacy of the population of these regions at the end of the 19th century was studied. Evaluations of educational achievements, derived by the authors in the previous work from the data on the average score of the Unified State Examination of persons who entered the budgetary universities of the regions in 2014, USE in the same year, were used. Data on literacy of the population were taken from the materials of the First General Population Census of the Russian Empire of 1897. Correlation of contemporary educational achievements with the percentage of literate men at the end of the XIX century. was 0.510, with a percentage of literate women 0.428, with a percentage of literate persons of both sexes 0.461. Some cases of inconsistency of modern educational achievements and literacy level in the end of XIX century are analyzed.
We note that spatially close regions tend to be characterized by similar values of the indicator of educational achievement. For example, five of the eight regions of the Far Eastern Federal District for which estimates are available are characterized by values below the national average: Magadan Oblast (85), Sakhalin Oblast (85), Jewish Autonomous Oblast (90), Amur Oblast (92), Primorsky Krai 94). A low value (89) is also characteristic of the Transbaikal Region, bordering the Amur Region, bordering the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Republic of Buryatia has the same importance with it (the latter two regions are part of the Siberian Federal District). (103), the Kirov Region (102), the Samara Region (102), the Chuvash Republic (102), the Perm Territory (101), the Republic of Tatarstan (101), the Republic of Mari El (100), the Nizhny Novgorod Region (99), the Ulyanovsk Region (98). Evaluations of educational achievements, thus, reveal a regular geographical variation. This fact is an additional indication of their informativeness.
