Higher education in the USSR, including that of the Moldovan SSR, had a unique concept in terms of its role and social mission to train highly qualified specialists and educate them in the spirit of Marxist-Leninist principles, or, as a rule, graduates of this This type of education completed the ranks of the „Soviet inte llectuals”, on which the Communist Party relied primarily on the process of mass dissemination and implementation of its policy. At the same time, higher education, regardless of the general field of study and/or vocational training, was organized according to common temporal and spatial parameters, which further amplified the conceptual and functional uniqueness of the Soviet high school. However, despite this fact, scientific specialties and study programs have designed, over the years, their own development paths, which have determined the formation of their curricular and extracurricular features and have finalized their specificity in the context of higher education in MSSR.