Born in the village of Doibani, located on the left bank of the Dniester, which was part of the Podolsk governorate of the Russian Empire in 1911, Agripina Craciun had a fate similar to other representatives of the Shantist intelligentsia, raised and educated in the MASSR during the interwar period, when the communist regime placed all hope and faith that they would contribute effectively to the creation of a communist society on the right of the Dniester after the second reannexation of Bessarabia by the Soviets. The "Moldovan" nationality and the qualification "teacher of the Moldavian language and literature", obtained at the Pedagogical Institute in Tiraspol (1937), made her "irreplaceable". As a "national cadre", Agripina Craciun was appointed director of the Educational Institute in Tiraspol (1944–1948), head of the Moldavian Language and Literature Department (1948–1951), and from 1951 – deputy minister, then Minister of Education of the RSSM. He will occupy this position twice: in the period 1951–1953 and 1958–1962. The first mandate coincided with a not simple period in the history of education in the RSSM. The field, taken over after the ministry of Artiom Lazaev, was in a process of continuous structural reorganization, the whole system facing a significant shortage of teaching staff, the post-war shortage, the lack of textbooks and other didactic materials and other problems, inherent in the process of establishment of the Soviet-style education system. She was often criticized that the system did not work according to the expectations of the higher state and party authorities, and was replaced in 1953. But after serving as vice-chairman of the Soviet of Ministers of the MSSR (1953–1958), she was reinstated as minister of education. The second term was not simpler: it coincided with the