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Our school is one of the oldest educational establishments in the city. It was design by architect Ivan Charushin in 1906. The money for its construction was given by one of the richest merchant in Vyatka - Tikhon Bulychev. He was famous for his charity. At first a hostel of the boys' gymnasia was housed there. In 1908 commercial professional school was opened in this building. It was done on the initiative of two exiled teachers - Manokhin & Chubina, the school was private. The pupils paid 5 rubles a year. The pupils were mainly the children of teachers, postal officers, railway workers. In 1908 there were only 78 pupils. Under trying conditions of tsarist Russia a group of teachers-enthusiasts could make a new progressive school. It became the center of progressive ideas of public education in Vyatka.
The main progressive ideas of that time were:
1. Co-education of boys &girls. This innovation was supposed to give thorough tuition to girls and to bring up natural friendly relations between boys & girls.
2. The teaching staff elected the headmaster. The headmaster had the right to choose teachers. The teachers were highly educated and cultured people.
3. The purpose of the commercial professional school was to give pupils profound knowledge, practical skills and habits, to develop their individual abilities.
The first headmaster of the school was I.G. Manokhin. He was a grandson of a serf. His father was self-educated technician. Ivan Grigoryevich was a gifted, hardworking and determined person. In 1892 he graduated from Petersburg Technological University and he continued his studies in England. He saw the drawbacks of state schools in Russia. His dream was to open the school where every pupil could get an opportunity to develop his individual abilities. Manokhin was the had and the heart of the new school.
Parents did a lot to support the initiative of the teaching staff. They provided the children with one meal a day and helped to organize extra curricula activities.
The following subjects were studied at the school:
> Religious Education
> Russian
> Arithmetic
> Geography
> Natural Science
> German
> Mineralogy
> Chemistry
> Handicrafts
> Physical education.
In the 7th form the pupils studied Political Economy. Some special subjects were introduced in the 8th form: Book-keeping, Merchandizing. The school leavers had the right to enter higher educational establishments.
Much attention was paid to Natural Science . A lot of lessons of Geography, Biology, Physics were held in a forest or in a field, on a bank of a river or in a vegetable garden. The teachers tried to give pupils practical knowledge, skills and habits. In 1912 30 pupils went on a one-month tour to the Urals. They visited such big industrial cities as Zlatoust, Yekaterinburg, Perm. The purpose of the tour was to show the pupils the countryside of the region. Its natural resources, to see the process of steel production, machinery and others.
In 1918 the school became United Labor School with 9-year education. The same subjects were studied except Bible. Much more attention was paid to Handicraft. Senior pupils studied Principles of Machine-Building and Electrical Engineering.
On the initiative of I. Monokhin the school was given a plot of land and a cottage in the village Lyangasy. The countryside around was beautiful. The cottage has 5 rooms for pupils, teachers & laboratory. So pupils could study, work &have a rest there. They have lessons of Geography & Biology in the open air. They took care of cows, horses & hens. In the evening they read books, staged performances. Each pupil had such kind of summer practices and lived & works in Lyangasy 20 days a year. This practice was compulsory.
In due course of time the school changed its names and numbers. In 1920-26 it was an experimental school of a technological college. In 1927 it was named after Krasin L., a prominent revolutionary, a comrade-in-arms of Lenin, the leader of the socialist revolution in Russia. In 1943 it was the school for girls. In the year of the Great Patriotic war a military hospital was housed in its building.
In 1964 an advanced course of English was introduced in the curriculum. The school became the first and the only one in the city specializing in English. The first teachers who made a great contribution to the development of the 'English' school were: A. Zorina, B. Davydova, A.Yefremova, N. Vorobyova and others.
It was not easy matter to start. There was not enough equipment and visual aids for teaching English. There were only 30 textbooks. That's why they were not lent to pupils but brought for the lessons only. But the teachers-enthusiasts did their best to arouse interest in their pupils and teach them good English. They arranged an English specking club, a choir, a theatre studio. All that helped pupils to mastered the language. The teachers & school leavers remember the school of 60-s looking more like an English language study. One could see colorful posters stuck to the walls, in them one could read & remember easily conversational word combinations, proverbs, short poems & jokes.
In summer 1970 all the pupils and teachers went to the country where they lived in tents for a fortnight - it was the first English camp, where the pupils & the teachers spoke English only.
The end of the 80-s - the beginning of the 90-s of the last century is a period of great changes in all spheres of life of our society, education included.
As far as our school concerned in 1991 it got a new status. It became a gymnasia. Its full name is: 'The Vyatka Humanitarian Gymnasia specializing in English'.
It has its own curriculum. The basic subjects are the humanitarian: Russian and Foreign Literature, Aesthetics, History, English, Russian, French, German, Latin. The Science include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Drawing.
The curriculum of many subjects are worked by the teachers of the gymnasia or staff of Kirov colleges and universities.
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