Siberian smithy of the Kulibins

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The school in the small village of Ingol of the Krasnoyarsk Territory became known throughout Russia, and the glory of the Siberian Kulibins was entrenched for its students. Every year, children become laureates of creative and scientific competitions, and recently the school's experience in cultural education was presented in Paris through UNESCO.

School number 47 is the same age as the village of Ingol: last year both the educational institution and the settlement celebrated their 45th anniversary. The settlement was created primarily as a transport hub, a transshipment point of the Krasnoyarsk railway. Therefore, it is mainly employees of Russian Railways who live in it, and the school is departmental, railway.

Krasnoyarsk residents know Ingol mainly for the lake of the same name: in the summer, tourists come here 20 times more than the inhabitants of the village. Well, in the country and Europe, Ingol's glory was brought by the school for gifted children (by the way, the next issue of the encyclopedia “Gifted Children - the Future of Russia” was recently published, in which two whole pages are devoted to the 47th school). However, they take in everyone in a row - just at the place of residence.

“Our school is not a state one, but a departmental one: it is financed by the railway, because about 80% of the children who study with us are the children of local railway workers. The school has all the best: equipment, including for scientific activities, and for creative work, and a base for additional education, and food. But the guys, of course, study with us only for free and in all the circles and sections they study for free too - everyone comes there, we don't select anyone on purpose. I think we are able to combine pedagogical traditions and new technologies in education, hence the results,”says Tatiana Romanova, director of the Ingol school No. 47.

Children at school begin to teach from the age of three - now there are already two groups for preschoolers working here. As Tatyana Romanova says, kids come to the first grade with great interest not only in learning, but also in creative, scientific, inventive activity. The school has a variety of associations - both musical, literary, and sports (a total of 35 sections and circles for a tiny educational institution - there are 9-11 people in each class).

But the special feature of the educational institution is the inventions of the guys. The glory of the school of the Siberian Kulibins was firmly entrenched for the 47th - out of 115 of its students, half of them have serious rationalization developments.

“The guys and I are making working models of equipment - tanks, steam locomotives. The scale is approximately 1:20. But this is just for the soul. We also have practical circles. For example, I am engaged in cooper business with the guys, they make various wooden utensils for the house. Coming up with farming techniques. In general, they have a lot of experience that is useful in the economy: we have half a school of young Kulibins,”says Oleg Babeshko, a teacher of additional education at the Ingol school.

Eighth-grader Vitya Ivanov became the winner of the regional rally of young technicians - for the original model of a potato digger, which saves energy and increases productivity. Ksenia Vegera wrote a work in the field of chemistry, which not only became the best in the competition "Young Researchers for Russian Science", but was also recommended for practical implementation. And Vladislav Zizevsky worked on his invention - a lathe-copying machine - for two whole years and became a laureate not only of the children's technical creativity competition, but also of an adult technosalon held in Krasnoyarsk.

“Now I study in the ninth grade, and I invented and started making a lathe and copying machine under the guidance of my teacher Oleg Alexandrovich Babeshko in the seventh. In fact, at first it was intended for the manufacture of paint brushes, but then its technical characteristics changed, and now you can make any wooden products on the machine: handles for carpentry tools (hacksaws, chisels), furniture, garden tools, etc. , - says Vladislav.

School museum

In Paris, at a UNESCO seminar, a rural school from a small Siberian village presented its programs on polycultural education.

According to Tatiana Romanova, the problem of coexistence of people of different nationalities is relevant for the whole world. She added that Siberians have something to share in this sense. “We are, on the one hand, a Russian region, and on the other hand, a multinational, historically people have come here from everywhere, and there has never been nationalism in Siberia, and even now there is not. And if we talk specifically about our region, then we, for example, hold an annual festival "Karatag", in which Russians, and Khakassians, and Tuvans, and gypsies, and Tatars, and Greeks participate. And at school we study the culture and crafts of different nations. And children of different nationalities are studying with us,”said the director.

Festival "Karatag"

In the summer, the school has been running a campaign for organizing summer playgrounds for the children of the village for several years. Young Kulibins install mini-attractions of their own production there, repair and improve children's playgrounds.