Need Help Translating Russian

[fallingstar12.livejournal.com]

I need help translating a Russian word. I am a genealogist and in one of the documents I found, the individual's occupation was listed "UCHASHCHIYSYA". Can anyone tell me what this means? Thanks.

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[wishkau.livejournal.com]

studying

[wishkau.livejournal.com]

sorry. if occupation is uchashiysya, then it might be a "student"

[fsi.livejournal.com]

well, translated literally it would indeed be 'studying', so you are partly correct

[ex-ei-gde-t.livejournal.com]

A student.

[romik-g.livejournal.com]

+1

[denmakh.livejournal.com]

+1

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Oh well. Учащийся (uchashiysya). It was really hard to decipher in Latin rendering :) Before 1977, this was in every new Soviet citizen passport -- as the passport was primarily issued at the age of 16, and by that time almost everybody was a high school student. After 1977, the new ("red," unlike the older "grey") Soviet passport would not include that graph, "social situation," so the "учащийся" term ceased to be used in passports. In Soviet statistics, though, it was used until 1991, and meant everybody attending "middle schools" (Soviet term for both junior high and high school", i.e. nearly everybody between 7 and 17 years of age; and for those continuing their education in colleges or higher education institutions - until graduation.