Lyceum number 82 (Nizhny Novgorod)

Emperor Alexander III School

In the last twenty years of the 19th century, the Sormovo Shipyard (at that time Sormovo Joint-Stock Company), due to economic growth and an increase in the complexity of orders, begins to lack qualified personnel and even elementary literate workers. In this regard, on January 14, 1885, the Sormovo Parish School opened, which was under the refectory of the nearby Alexander Nevsky Church and gave two-year education to no more than 150 students. By 1893, the Board of Trustees raised 15 thousand rubles and allocated these funds for the construction of a new wooden two-story building. In 1895, the school turned 10 years old, and this event was marked by a large article in the newspaper Nizhny Novgorod Diocesan Vedomosti. It was noted there that the school occupies a prominent place among parochial schools of both the Nizhny Novgorod diocese and beyond ^[1] . Over four hundred children have studied here with the help of only seven teachers. The educational institution for the most part was supported by the workers and employees of the plant. By the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, Sormovo Joint-Stock Company began to take part in financing the maintenance of the school in the amount of 5000 rubles annually. In addition to general diploma, teaching was conducted in elementary geometry, algebra, physics, technical drawing and drawing. Boys (training was conducted separately) received the basics of plumbing and carpentry. Girls in addition to general subjects studied needlework, and older girls didactics .

At the beginning of the 20th century, about 1,500 children are studying at the school, with the number of teachers already exceeding 50. After the construction of the Savior Transfiguration Cathedral in Sormovo was completed, the plant’s directorate approached its architect, engineer P. P. Malinovsky, with an order to design a new school building. He executed plan-facades of a three-story stone building in the Art Nouveau style, with a symmetrical arrangement of architectural volumes and decor elements ^[2] . The construction of the building was originally planned to be carried out near the Transfiguration Cathedral, but the final decision was made in favor of the wasteland at the intersection of the Big Road (now Komintern Street) and Alexandro-Nevskaya Street (now Barrikadnaya Street). Construction was completed in October 1903. After solemn consecration, the school was named after Emperor Alexander III .

The influx of people was very large. The school building was decorated with flags. The Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod Nazarii , Archimandrite of the Annunciation Monastery Sergius, city and local clergy served a prayer service for the consecration of the school.

- the newspaper "Nizhny Novgorod leaf" ^[3]

School of Barricades

The revolutionary events of 1905, largely triggered by the shooting of a demonstration on January 9, 1905 , echoed the December uprising of the Sormovsky proletariat. On the morning of December 26 (13), barricades were erected near the school building. The headquarters of the uprising was located in the building itself. It also housed a fighting squad, a home-made cannon was installed in the window of the third floor. For some time, the workers successfully resisted the police, reinforced by a unit of Cossacks. However, by the morning of the next day, the approaching artillery calculation of the regular army significantly damaged the barricades. By the evening of December 27 (14), the uprising in Sormovo was crushed ^[4] . As a result of the clashes, 40 workers were killed and more than 100 injured ^[5] .

In 1906, the school passed from the conduct of the Russian Orthodox Church to the disposal of the Balakhninsky district zemstvo. Workers who achieved some liberal reforms as a result of the struggle gained the right to monitor the progress of training sessions. The school organized Sunday general education courses for adults, which the RSDLP often used to propagate its political views ^[5] .

In 1917, the Provisional Government transferred all primary schools to the Ministry of Education. The school received the name "Factory seven-year school number 7 in memory of the 1905 Barricades." The school got its current number 82 in the 1930s, when all Gorky schools switched to a single, continuous numbering.

With the outbreak of World War II, the building was forced to accept students from two more schools in the Sormovsky District - 84 and 117. However, a month later, by decision of the State Defense Committee, a radio school was placed there - the 40th separate reserve radio battalion (OZRB), which trained radio operators for partisan compounds ^[6] . The service and life of female cadets is described in detail in the book “A Dream Beyond the Horizon” by the participant of the events of Edda Menshenina ^[7] .

After the war ended, the school returned to peaceful life in its former building. In 1947, Gorky State University organized the first physics and mathematics competition in the city. Its winner was a student of the 82nd school. In 1948, a physics and technology faculty was opened at Moscow State University (now MIPT ), and the selection committee traveled to various cities of the Soviet Union in search of gifted applicants. Seven students of physics teacher Vyacheslav Permitin were enrolled at Moscow State University, and he himself was included in the commission ^[8] .

School 82

In 1960, the school received a new four-story building on Kultury Street. On August 30, 1977, on the premises of the School of Barricades, by the decision of the Executive Committee of the Sormovsky District Council, a training and production center for labor training and vocational guidance for students of educational schools began to operate with training in the following specialties: sewing, mechanical engineering, automobile repair, and trade in food products.

The new building was built according to the standard design, but thanks to the original interior layout of the premises, the special class equipment, conceived by the director A. A. Rudov, the project became almost individual. In 1970, the school received the status of an educational institution with an in-depth study of mathematics and physics. The author’s teaching methods for these disciplines were demonstrated at VDNKh ^[8] . The journal “ Public Education ” called it “the forge of cadres of the Sormov intelligentsia” ^{[9] [10]} . In 1968, E. M. Ravvin was appointed director of the school. During this period, she succeeds not only in retaining the teaching staff of the 1940s and 1950s, but also in expanding the teaching staff. For more than a decade, Nina Bakusheva, one of the few teachers of the Heroes of Socialist Labor , has been working here ^[11] .

• Menshenina E. Dream over the horizon . - Phoenix Plus, 2008 .-- 223 p. - 500 copies.

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