Mariinsky Gymnasium (Ufa)

The gymnasium was created as a public Orenburg school of the I category on the basis of the Regulation on women's schools.

The school opened as an educational institution with a six-year course of study. The first enrollment was 25 girls, the next year there were already 70. Their number increased to 245. Girls aged 9-12 were recruited to the first grade of the gymnasium, girls aged 10-13 were enrolled in the second grade, 11 in the third —14 years old, in the fourth 12-15 years. For admission to the gymnasium, it was supposed to file an application on plain paper, to which it was necessary to attach a metric certificate and a certificate of vaccination against smallpox. In addition, the candidates were required to know the main prayers, be able to fluently read in Russian, perform arithmetic operations within a thousand.

The number of students for Ufa was relatively small, since the cost of training was quite significant: 46 rubles per year for compulsory subjects of study. Additional items were paid separately: Latin (from the 5th grade) - 10 rubles, French - 5 rubles, dancing - 5 rubles, drawing - 3 rubles. However, the board of trustees could appoint scholarships for students under the name of Major General L. E. Nord and Adjutant General Kryzhanovsky, and information on the affairs of the gymnasium, the sources of its funding, the guardianship and pedagogical councils, the successes of the students and the technical condition of the school building was open and published in the Ufa newspapers.

In 1865 , the school received the status of a gymnasium with a seven-year classical education. The eighth grade was pedagogical, and girls who graduated from it received the right to work as home teachers.

Initially, training took place in a one-story wooden building (at least until 1879 ). However, in 1898 the gymnasium moved to a stone building, which was built according to the plan of the architect Rudavsky Pavel Pavlovich. The philanthropists who provided the school with substantial financial support were the honorary citizens of Ufa I.F. Bazilevsky, V.I. Vidineev, N.K. Blokhin. Donations in favor of the gymnasium also came from the Ministry of People’s Provincial Zemstvo, from the city government, from the parents of students and other private individuals, from the sale of lottery tickets. The Board of Trustees included such well-known Ufa residents as collegiate assessor Andrei Dmitrievich Dashkov, Orenburg Mufti Haji Salimgarey Shangareevich Tevkelev , and State Counselor Nikolai Alexandrovich Gurvich. The gymnasium staff consisted of an honorary trustee, the head of the gymnasium, members of the board of trustees, two class ladies and teachers.

After the Revolution in 1918 - 1919, the Mariinsky Gymnasium was called the Women's Gymnasium No. 1, and in 1919 it was renamed the Unified Soviet Labor School No. 1 of I and II levels. In 1922 , the training period in it was extended to 9 years, and boys began to study in it. In 1937 , a monument to A. M. Gorky was erected near the school, and the school began to be called in his honor.

In 2002 , Ufa gymnasium No. 3, as the school now became known, received the diploma “Beautiful School of the 21st Century”.

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• Ufa through the centuries. Mariinsky Gymnasium
• Photos "Mariinsky Gymnasium" (inaccessible link)