Gymnasium №36 is a

public school Public school may refer to: * State school (known as a public school in many countries), a no-fee school, publicly funded and operated by the government * Public school (United Kingdom), certain elite fee-charging independent schools in England an ...

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East Eu ...

, Russia. Opened in 1915, the building was designed by architect I. Y. Lyubimov.

History

In 1906, State Councilor Nikolai Stepanov opened a four-year school for boys in Rostov-on-Don. Initially, it was located in the premises of the former orphanage, but several years later Stepanov decided to build a separate building for the gymnasium. The new gymnasium building was built in 1915. It initially accepted boys from ages 14 to 15. The tuition fees for the preparatory class were 100 rubles, and for the first class, 130 rubles. From 1916, girls were accepted at the gymnasium. The gymnasium was active during the

Russian Civil War , date = October Revolution, 7 November 1917 – Yakut revolt, 16 June 1923{{Efn, The main phase ended on 25 October 1922. Revolt against the Bolsheviks continued Basmachi movement, in Central Asia and Tungus Republic, the Far East th ...

. In 1920, it was transformed into the first-level labour school No. 95. In 1922, on the basis of the elementary classes of school No. 95, the school of the first and second stage No. 24, named after

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...

, was opened. In 1926 this became the seven-year Trotsky School No. 5. In 1928 documents the educational institution was listed as Rostov-on-Don Co-Op-School No. 9. By 1938 it was called

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

Secondary School No. 36. In 1962, school number 36 introduced the teaching of a number of subjects in

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. In 1997 the school became Gymnasium No. 36. In 2007, Gymnasium No. 36 was among the winners of the All-Russian Contest "The Best Schools in Russia".

Description

The brick building of the school has three floors and a basement. The roof is four-tiered with a tent on the north-eastern side. The building is located in the corner of and . On 1 September 2011 the Monument to the first-grader, depicting a schoolboy sitting on a globe, was unveiled at the entrance to the gymnasium.

References

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