I. Metshin: “It feels like a new school, but it is already 30 years old!”

(KZN.RU, August 10, Ksenia Shvetsova). The overhaul of the building the Tatar-Russian school №113 and the school №13 is coming to an end. At the same time, the improvement of the square and the preparation of the site for the installation of the monument is finishing in the yard of the school. This year, there will be a bust of Hero of Russia Marat Akhmetshin. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, inspected the overhaul and instructed to speed up the pace of work to complete them by the beginning of the school year.

The building at Adoratsky Street, №36a, unites two educational institutions: Tatar-Russian school №113 with the in-depth study of individual subjects and the school №13 with the Tatar language of instruction. Last year, when the school was given the name of Hero of Russia Marat Akhmetshin, it was decided to create a landscaped square with a bust of Hero on the school grounds. Marat Akhmetshin studied at this school from 1988 to 1997 and died last year while performing military duty in the Syrian Arab Republic. The building of the school was built in 1988, it has not been overhauled since then.

The Mayor of the city instructed to include the school in the capital repair program for this year, and today the work on the renovation of the educational institution is at the final stage. About 150 million rubles was allocated for the overhaul of the school; the contractor was the OOO SK “Promgradstroy”.

“The overhaul was highly needed here”, said Elvira Yunusova, the head of the school №113. “We are very much looking forward and hope that the school will meet the children in a different way on September 1”. The renovation will affect about 900 people that study in the building.

The largest work has already been done. According to Mikhail Kandakov, the head of the contract organization, 5 thousand out of 5.5 thousand square meters of the roof have been updated, 4 thousand out of 4.5 thousand square meters of the facade have been completed. “Renovation of heating is completed by 90%. We have already finished changing the water supply and sewage systems. All the wiring is done, lamps are going to be installed”, explained Mikhail Kandakov. “The territory is improved by 60%, asphalt will be laid last in order to keep the surface clean. We are trying to finish it by the beginning of September”.

The facade of the school was painted in different colors, and the block of the Tatar grammar school differs in color from the rest of the school. At the same time, the design of the two educational institutions will not differ in any way. The pedagogical staff and the students are very friendly and perceive the two educational institutions as one.

The Mayor inspected the site, which is being prepared for the installation of the monument, and instructed to create an additional entrance to the school grounds for the convenience of schoolchildren and teachers.

“The overhaul of this schools is very important, these are big, popular institutions. They were not included in the repair program for this year. So we thank the President of the RT and the leaders who decided to repair and allocated the funds”, said I. Metshin. “More importantly that there will be patriotic upbringing. Marat Akhmetshin is our hero, so we hope that the renovated school will promote the patriotic upbringing not only of its students, but of all children living nearby”.

The Mayor also noted that the overhaul of other Kazan educational institutions is in full swing. “For today, we have repaired 80% of our schools that required an overhaul. 134 out of 162 schools have already been updated, this is a good pace of work”.

In addition to the two educational institutions in the building, there is a music school. According to E. Yunusova, about 370 school students visit it. The main direction of the music school is jazz, but there is also a choral department and choreography. The music school will also meet its students in an updated form; the repair work is almost complete there.

During the inspection of the school, Guzel Ananieva, the general director of the Department of Food and Social Catering of Kazan, presented to the Mayor the draft of the future school restaurant. It will be designed in the Tatar style. The Mayor instructed to work out the design of the restaurant in more detail, making it more peaceful so that children will not get tired of too bright colors.

“It feels like a new school that just been built, but it is 30 years old!” noted I. Metshin. “Everything we see here today completely suits us. The quality of the work is high, there would be no complaints later. And it is important to complete everything by September 1”.

Timur Alibayev, the head of the Aviastroitelny and Novo-Savinovsky districts’ administration, Ilnar Khidiyatov, the head of the Department of Education, Stanislav Shyrybarov, the deputy director of the GISU RT, and others took part in the inspection.