SERGEI IVANOV VISITS RUSSIAN SCHOOL IN YEREVAN

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
April 11, 2007 Wednesday 08:41 AM EST

Russian First Vice Premier Sergei Ivanov has visited here a school
for the children of Russian officers and men, servicing in Armenia.

This general-purpose secondary school, No.21, which belongs to the
Russian Defence Ministry, is located in Kanakere, a northern suburb
of Yerevan, where Russian servicemen were first deployed back in 1827.

School Headmaster Pyotr Soshnikov told Ivanov that the school was
opened on September 1994. A new school building was commissioned for
it in August 2002, where splendid conditions for tuition were created.

They include not only comfortable classrooms, but also a gym and
assembly hall, physics and chemistry laboratories, a workshop,
a computer class, and a so-called inter-active tuition cabinet.

The Russian "Zakneftestroi-Prometei" company, which builds pipelines,
sponsored the school building’s reconstruction with the help of the
Russian Embassy and the Moscow City Council.

The school is being steadily enlarged: it had only 56 pupils when it
was opened. Today, they already number 427, the Headmaster said. It
is quite indicative that Armenian citizens are eager to enrol their
children in this school.