Physics and Mathematics Lyceum № 239

1918-1961

The school was organized in 1918. Initially, it was located in the house of Lobanov-Rostovsky , the “house with lions”, on the corner of Admiralteysky Prospekt and St. Isaac's Square (Admiralteysky Prospekt 12).

The school has repeatedly changed its numbers and names ^[1] . So, in the late 1920s - early 1930s it was called 57 FZS - "Factory Seven Years named after January 9th", in 1931 it became nine-year-old and the name changed to 57 FZD. In 1936, the school became ten-year-old and changed its name again - now it was "14th secondary school of the Oktyabrsky district." In 1941-1942, when the uniform numbering of schools in the city was introduced, the school acquired a number, which bears to this day - 239. Moreover, it was one of the few Leningrad schools that worked during the years of the blockade . During 1944-1954, the school was female, then it became only a high school student - a polytechnic.

Since 1961

In 1961, the school again changed its status, becoming a specialized physical and mathematical one. The merit in organizing the first specialized mathematical school in the Soviet Union belongs in many respects to the director of the school, M.V. Matkovskaya, and to the director of the LOMI named after Steklov Professor G. I. Petrashen ^[2] and the employee of this institute V. A. Zalgaller ^[3] .

In 1964, the school moved to the building on Plekhanova Street (now Kazanskaya Street ), 48/1, where the working youth school was located before, then, in 1966, it was located at 108 Moika Embankment (236 school used to be here). Finally, in 1975, the school moved into the historical building of the former St. Anna's School ( Annenshule ) at 8a Kirochnaya Street (there were 189 schools before), which is still located to this day. In 2009, the Lyceum was transferred to the building opposite, in which 203 school named after A. S. Griboedov was located , and now 5-8 grades are studying there.

In 1990, by decree of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the school received the status of a physical and mathematical lyceum and experimental base laboratory of standards for teaching physics , mathematics and computer science in St. Petersburg .

In 1994, according to the results of the competition within the framework of the program "Renewal of humanitarian education in Russia", the lyceum was awarded a grant from the Soros Foundation . The Mathematical Society of the United States recognized the school as one of the ten best in the Commonwealth of Independent States .

In 2006, 2008 and 2012, the lyceum became the winner of the competition of educational institutions in the framework of the Priority national project "Education" ^[4] .

In 2013 and 2014, in the list of 500 strongest schools in Russia compiled by the Moscow Center for Continuing Mathematical Education, Lyceum No. 239 took third place in terms of the Unified State Examination, All-Russian and International Olympiads ("Top 500") ^{[5] [6]} . In 2015, the lyceum led this rating.

Throughout the years of the existence of FML, starting in the 1960s, schoolchildren have consistently achieved high results at olympiads of various levels (from urban to international), and not only in majors, but also in chemistry , biology , literature , history , Russian and English . During the existence of FML No. 239, more than 60 students became winners of international competitions, more than 250 - all-Union and All-Russian.

As of 2013, 71 teachers and 53 teachers of additional education work in the lyceum (50 of which are graduates of the FML itself No. 239). 6 teachers have the title “ Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation ”, 15 teachers are awarded the “ Honorary Worker of General Education ” badge, 8 teachers are awarded the St. Petersburg Governor’s badge “For the Humanization of the St. Petersburg School”, 52 teachers are certified for the highest qualification category.

The Lyceum has a Department of Continuing Education, which includes a mathematical center, a physics center, an information technology center, a chemical center, a theater studio, an English theater, a journalist club, local history , tourism and orienteering circles, volleyball , basketball , and football sections.

There is a museum at the school, which is a licensed branch of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.

At the school since 1965 there is a tourist club "Steps". The club annually organizes a school-wide autumn tourist rally, ski trips to the Kola Peninsula and summer trips to the Urals , Siberia , Crimea , the Caucasus , etc., as well as categorical water trips along the rivers of Russia, Finland and Norway .

Each summer, more than three hundred high school students go to summer camps as part of the social and educational project “Assistance to Monasteries and Museum Reserves”. Pupils also go to summer schools in mathematics, physics and chemistry at the recreation camps of the Karelian Isthmus .

On January 1, 2014, the lyceum received the status of “Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239”. The lyceum is directly administered by the Education Committee of St. Petersburg.

It is declared the best school in Russia in 2015 ^[7] , 2016 ^[8] and 2017 ^[9] .

• Matkovskaya Maria Vasilievna - from 1950 to 1976
• Radionov Victor Evseevich - from 1976 to 1980
• Golubeva Galina Nikolaevna - from 1980 to 1982
• Efimova Tamara Borisovna - from 1982 to 2009
• Pratusevich Maxim Yakovlevich - since 2009

• Efimov D.G. History of 239 schools (neopr.) . Date of treatment December 15, 2013. Archived December 15, 2013.
• School History and Initial General Information
• Nina Bashkirova. The best schools, grammar schools, lyceums of St. Petersburg. - SPb. , 2011 .-- 288 p. - ISBN 978-5-49807-846-5 .

• Website 239 FML
• Page about 239 school of Sergey Gribov
• "Physics and mathematics schools." Channel 5 broadcast, October 18, 2008
•   - community 239 FML in LJ