Oulun Suomalaisen Yhteiskoulun Lukio (abbr. OSYK, en, Finnish Co-educational Lycée of Oulu) is a Finnish-language

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. The school is located in the Kuusiluoto neighbourhood in the

Vanhatulli Vanhatulli is a district of the city centre area of Oulu, Finland. Together with the districts of Pokkinen and Vaara, Vanhatulli forms the central business district of Oulu. It is bounded by the estuary of the Oulujoki river to the west, the Pokki ...

district in the central Oulu. There are about 40 teachers and about 620 students in OSYK. The school is arts and culture oriented, and it is part of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network.

History

Oulun Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu was established and opened in 1902 as a private Finnish-language lycée. It was the first

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upper secondary school in Oulu. At the time Finland was a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. The first principal of the school, Mauno Rosendal was an independence activist, who was sent to exile in 1903. He returned from exile in 1905. The first years the school operated in rented premises, the own school building was built in 1907–1908. The school was changed to a state-owned public school in 1920. During the

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school work was disrupted at times. The

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needed premises and the

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bombed the Kuusiluoto neighbourhood. In 1944 a bomb fell into the girls'

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nasium, but did not explode. In the 1974 national education reform Oulun Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu was turned over to the city government, and at the time it was renamed and divided into the Kuusiluoto secondary school (''Kuusiluodon yläaste'') and the Kuusiluoto upper secondary school (''Kuusiluodon lukio''). In 2004 Kuusiluodon lukio was made a central upper secondary school and the lower classes were merged into other schools. The original name of the school was restored in 2006.

School building

The school building of the Oulun Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu was built in 1907-1908 in

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style influenced by

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. The four-storey stone building was designed by architect Victor Sucksdorff. The building has been extended in 1955 with an extension that was adapted to the original building and in 1960 with a

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extension. The last major restoration work was completed in the autumn of 2006.

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