The activities of Moscow society of commercial education distribution for creation of educational institutions for different level specialist training in the field of trade and banking are analyzed in this paper. This society’s contribution to formation of economic education system in Russia at the end of XIX — the beginning of XX century has been studied in.
The experience related to creation of postgraduate study in Academy of education workers’ upgrade qualifi cations and professional retraining, which last academic year celebrated its twentieth anniversary, is revealed in this paper. The reasonable statement that the postgraduate study created on the basis of additional professional pedagogical education institution, has specifics which needs to be considered at design of content, technologies and organizational forms of educational process, including in the conditions of existing Federal State Requirements is (FSR) submitted.