Lyceum № 40 (Nizhny Novgorod)

On September 1, 1961, the Physics and Mathematics School No. 40 was founded in Nizhny Novgorod . Veniamin Yakovlevich Veksler was the founder and first director. It was the third in the Soviet Union (after Moscow and Leningrad ) and the first in Gorky specialized school. Initially, the school was located on Yaroslavskaya Street, 25, and was intended only for the upper grades (190 people in the first set in the ninth grades), and the teaching staff consisted of 23 teachers ^[1] .

A few years later, thanks to the active support of the director of the Research Radio Physics Institute , Professor Maria Tikhonovna Grekhova, permission was received to build a new building of school No. 40 on Figner Street (now Varvarskaya). In January 1966, the foundation was laid, after which teachers and pupils of the school were brought to the construction, unloading machines, laying rails for a crane and erecting brickwork. In September 1966, in a new school building, the number of students increased to more than 1,180 in 33 classes, and teachers to 44 ^[1] .

School No. 23 was joined to school No. 23, where George Gavrilovich Maslyakov , the Hero of the Soviet Union , studied, so a museum named after him was created in the new school. In 1967, a monument was erected with money earned by students during the collection of waste paper and scrap metal.

On September 1, 1990, school No. 40 was transformed into the Nizhny Novgorod Physics and Mathematics School-Lyceum (one of the first in Nizhny Novgorod to receive Lyceum status ^[2] ), then to Lyceum No. 40. In 2019, it became the Supporting School of the Russian Academy of Sciences ^[3] .

Teaching in the lyceum is conducted according to individual curricula, with the implementation of the author's programs in specialized subjects. From 7th to 11th grade special courses are taught, in 10-11 grades there is a choice of subjects ^[4] . Since 2009 , when competitive admission to schools was canceled in Nizhny Novgorod and thus enrollment in the first classes of the lyceum was limited to 50 children a year based on the application procedure, the mayor received a collective appeal from parents who could not enroll their children in the lyceum . “The number of people willing to give up a child in grade 1 of the 40th school is many times larger,” the letter said ^[5] .

Lyceum is a part of the end-to-end education system, starting in grades 10-11 and continuing in the basic faculties of Lobachevsky University and in the postgraduate course at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Since 2001, in cooperation with the Scientific and Educational Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Lyceum No. 40 has been implementing a program for organizing small physical classes (no more than 20 people), which are recruited on a competitive basis. Teaching in these classes is entrusted to the most qualified pedagogical staff, which include a PhD and 12 PhDs . Small classes and first-class teaching staff allow for a higher level of training, and in the first year of its implementation this project became the winner of the district fair of social and cultural projects “Saratov-2001” ^[4] . Only in the first year of the existence of the Prize to support talented young people in the framework of the Priority National Project “Education” six students of the physical classes of the Lyceum became its owners ^[6] . Under the Lyceum there is a Sunday Physics and Mathematics School "Kvant", where more than 30 children from different schools of the city are engaged ^[7] .

In addition to the natural sciences, the Lyceum provides good general training. Every year, at the Lyceum on the day of the death of Alexander Pushkin , the Pushkin poetry contest is held, and ninth-grade students with the help of teachers of literature prepare a theatrical production ^[8] .

In different periods, school number 40 was headed:

• 1961–1980 - Veksler Veniamin Yakovlevich, Excellence in Public Education of the RSFSR
• 1980—1987 - Tamara Perelygina, excellent student of the national education of the RSFSR
• 1987-1989 - Chernov Valentin Ivanovich
• 1989 - n. vr. - Umnova Natalia Semenovna, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation

Throughout the existence of school No. 40, practicing scientists, doctors and candidates of science ^[2] were involved in teaching there. There are 11 Soros teachers among the teachers of the lyceum, a number of teachers are research associates of universities in Nizhny Novgorod ^[4] .

Physics teacher Vladimir Y. Kovalev - Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, "The best teacher of physics of Russia" ^[7] , winner of the IV All-Russian competition of teachers of mathematics and physics in the nomination "Teacher who educated a student" ^[9] . Mathematics teacher Lyudmila Ivanovna Stepanova - Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, winner of the grant of the Priority National Project “Education” ^[10] , grants from the Dynasty Foundation (in 2006–2009) ^[11] . Grants under the PNP “Education” were also awarded lyceum teachers Valentina Krevskaya (chemistry), Lyudmila Evstratova (computer science) and Tatyana Monich (chemistry) ^[10] .

From 1993 to 2003, the Lyceum won the title of “best school of the year” in Nizhny Novgorod (1994) and in Russia (1996), and was also awarded a grant from the Soros Foundation , a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for working with gifted children (2001), a number of regional awards and awards ^[4] . Since 2006, the Lyceum has repeatedly won the grant of the PNP Education, intended for the best innovative schools in Russia ^[12] .

From 1969 to 2009, students of school and lyceum No. 40 won 24 awards at international competitions, more than half of them of the highest dignity ^[13] . In 1993–2003, students from the Lyceum won 16 medals, including 9 gold ones, at the international olympiads in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science ^[4] In 1997–2000 and 2007, the Russian team at the international computer science competitions was half made up of representatives from Nizhny Novgorod and two pupils of lyceum 40 returned from Croatia in 2007 with gold medals ^[14] .

• Lyceum site
• Instagram Lyceum ^[1]
• VK Lyceum
• Lyceum № 40 on the site of IAP RAS

1. ↑ Lyceum №40 (@ lyceum40) • Photos and videos on Instagram (Rus.) . www.instagram.com. The appeal date is May 23, 2019.