The fighting on the fronts of the civil war was still going on when Lenin signed a decree on the establishment of the State University in Turkestan. On the orders of the leader, a train with teachers of the future university was sent from Moscow. Professor Matusovsky, a researcher of Central Asia, was sent to Tashkent as the rector of the university. Class enemies - local beks - with the support of foreign counterrevolution, were trying to disrupt the opening of an educational institution for the people.
