Vorotynets Secondary School is the secondary school of the district center of Vorotynets. The school has one of the best school museums in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Over 50 years, 2,526 people have graduated from the secondary school. [1]
The school's traditions include active local-history research by the teaching staff, and a patriotic stance.
In the depth of its teaching of the humanities, Vorotynets secondary school could be classed among lyceums.
History of the school
Based on a certificate from the State Archive of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, we know that in 1904 a new, comfortable building of a two-grade Ministry of National Education school was built in the Vorotynets, with apartments for teachers and a library-reading room. This two-story building stands out in photographs from the 1950s. It stood next to the church, where the treasury building now stands.
In 1932, the Vorotynets first-level school became a seven-year school. Classes were held in the 1904 building and in houses of dekulakized peasants and merchants that had been converted for school use.
In 1935–1936, two new buildings were built in Vorotynets (disambiguation) on a vacant lot behind Maxim Gorky Street. The Vorotynets secondary school was housed there. At the same time the seven-year school also continued its work. Today the 1936 building houses a sports school. The two-story building was dismantled in 2007.
On November 23, 1963, construction began on the building of Vorotynets secondary school on a new street of the settlement, named Cosmonauts Street in honor of the conquerors of space. The first stone in the foundation of this new building was laid by 10th-grade student Vitya Mayorov. As it turned out, Vitya never did get to study at this school. But for 36 years now, the 1965 silver medalist Viktor Fyodorovich Mayorov has been coming to work at his native school.
On September 1, 1968, the grand opening of the new building took place. Nikolai Terentyevich Karmanov, head of the Vorotynets repair-and-construction section, ceremonially handed the keys to the school's director, Vasily Mikhailovich Shirgin.
In 1971, an eight-year school split off from the secondary school, headed by Viktor Fyodorovich Vershinin, Olga Nikolaevna Labayeva, and Igor Valentinovich Lyapidevsky. Meanwhile, another wing was being added onto the building on Cosmonauts Street, and once it opened, the schools merged again. The school's director at that time was Nikolai Mikhailovich Vtorov. He was succeeded by Eva Ivanovna Smirnova.
Since 1990, the school has been headed by Vera Dmitrievna Shindina, an Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation.
In 1998, in order to move away from a two-shift schedule, the school was given the reconstructed building of the "Rodnichok" kindergarten, which today houses the elementary school.
(from a tour by Alexander Dyuzhakov)