In 1951-1964 the daily life of workers at Virgin Lands campaign of cultural and educational institutions during the “development of virgin and fallow lands” is described. The state of cultural and educational centers in the former settlements of the virgin lands and new methods of cultural services for the population at the time of the arrival of the workers, the activities of state and party bodies on organizing the leisure of them, the state of cultural centers in Kazakhstan, which was part of Virgin and Fallow Lands in the USSR, the opinions of the authorities on this matter were considered.

The place and importance of cultural and educational institutions in the daily life of the inhabitants of the Virgin Lands covering the period 1951-1964 are analyzed on the basis of new archival data. Especially emphasizes that an extremely important aspect of the daily life of the inhabitants of the Virgin Lands is daily work, the organization of everyday life and leisure, large-scale cultural and educational work and its problems, the peculiarities of the life of the population during the Soviet period, the growth of "houses of culture" in farms with high capacity, on the study of the formation of cultural centers. During the study, it was noted that there were cases when small Kazakh villages were closed by houses of culture under the pretext of inefficiency of maintaining such institutions, instead, samples of Russian culture were promoted under the pretext of developing international socialist culture without taking into account the spiritual and cultural values of the indigenous people of the region, other nationalities and nationalities who arrived on virgin land.