Abstract
The study examines the issues of formation of music education in Novo-Nikolaevsk, the rudiments of which were laid from the very beginning of the construction of the bridge-builder village, continued with private lessons and finally resulted in the organization of the first musical educational institutions: the schools of S. N. Zavadovsky and Y. C. Sventorzhetskaya and after arrival in the city of the Red Army in the spring of 1920 of a new music school (in fact, the first Soviet educational institution of culture). N.P. Viduley and E.M. Skvortsova were at the beginning of the last-mentioned. Unfortunately, with the transition of music education to the municipal department, it began to experience financial difficulties that led to the closure of the first Soviet music school in 1927. In addition, the article considers local history aspects - the location of schools, the former names of the city streets.