Rabotki Agrarian College is a state budgetary vocational educational institution of secondary vocational education located in the village of Rabotki in Kstovo Municipal Okrug, Nizhny Novgorod Region, on the bank of the Volga. The institution traces its history to 1916; its official founding date is considered to be 16 August 1930, the day the school was converted into an agricultural technical school. Since 2012 the college has been under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Resources of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.[2]

History

In 1916, on a steep bank of the Volga, at the point where the Kudma River flows in, Mikhail Borisovich Prutchenko, Deputy Minister of Education of Russia, built a palace-like building of red brick with white columns. According to available accounts, ladies-in-waiting of the imperial court attended the laying of the foundation, and by some reports Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was present incognito. After the building was consecrated by Father Vladimir, rector of the Rabotki church, it became home to orphaned children of soldiers killed on the fronts of the First World War.[1]

In 1918 a school-commune was organized in the building; in 1919 Nadezhda Krupskaya visited the village of Rabotki, arriving on the agitation steamship "Krasnaya Zvezda": she devoted attention to the pupils, and sailors of the Volga Military Flotilla took the school under their patronage. In 1924 the institution received the official status of a school-commune with agricultural labor.[2]

By a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of 16 August 1930, the school was converted into the Rabotki Agricultural (Fruit and Vegetable) Technical School — this is the date considered the founding date of the institution. In 1964, through the merger with the "Plodopitomnicheskiy" state farm, the technical school was reorganized into a state-farm technical school. From 1978, after relocating from Makaryevo, the college became the legal successor of the Lyskovo Zootechnical and Veterinary Technical School. In 1992 the institution received the status of a state-farm college, and since 1999 it has borne the name Rabotki Agrarian College.[2]

Activities

The college trains specialists for agriculture: agronomists, livestock technicians, veterinary assistants, beekeepers, farmers, and accountants. Over the institution's years of operation, about 22,000 graduates have received diplomas. The principle of instruction laid down back in 1916 is to live, study, and work in a rural setting and in real agricultural production.[2] The college has a dormitory; open days for schoolchildren and their parents are held regularly, including as part of the federal project "Professionalitet". In 2019 the college hosted a spiritual and moral conference timed to coincide with the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture, commemorating the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius; the event was led by the Orthodox educator Vlada Voskresenskaya and Priest Aleksandr Lysov, assistant to the dean of the Kstovo district of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese for work with youth, and was attended by the institution's students and teachers.[3][1]

Links

Sources

  1. nne.ru — Nizhny Novgorod Metropolia — In 2019, the college held a spiritual and moral conference timed to coincide with the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture (archive)
  1. rak-nn.ru — RabotkiAK — Official website of the State Budgetary Professional Educational Institution "Rabotki Agricultural College"
  2. web.archive.org — Our History (archive)