Ilsur Metshin assessed the updated technology room of the Tatar school №15

(KZN.RU, November 23, Alsu Safina). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan visited the Tatar school №15 of the Kirovsky district and assessed the technology room, updated thanks to sponsorship, and the new school museum. The Mayor noted that it is important for schoolchildren to have the opportunity to develop practical skills that will be useful to them in the future.

The Mayor paid attention to the poor state of the training workshop during a visit to the school last August. Then he inspected the overhaul, carried out in it for a year and a half.

The Tatar school №15 is an object of cultural heritage and is located in a building built in 1867 on Malo-Moskovskaya Street, №12. During the overhaul, roofing and engineering networks were replaced, the foundations were strengthened, the basements were repaired, and interfloor ceilings were strengthened. However, the repair did not affect the neighboring building with the school training workshop. It was possible to make it this year thanks to the support of sponsors. The technology office has changed, a new equipment has been installed there that allows schoolchildren to master the skills necessary in life.

“All schoolchildren now use gadgets, computers. But for a real man, it is important to handle a hammer, a screwdriver and do everything necessary around the house without calling masters”, said I. Metshin. “We learned this growing up. And I am glad that such opportunities have appeared at your school now on the eve of the WorldSkills Championship that will be held next year”.

Fanit Kharisov, the director of the school, said that in the future it is planned to open sections at the school, including robotics. According to the director, now that new equipment has appeared in the classrooms, the students attend technology lessons with interest, make various layouts and craft. Thus, during the visit of the Mayor, 7th-grade students were making nesting boxes according to the drawings in the training workshop.

Ilsur Metshin was also shown a new school museum, open to the 300th anniversary of the Admiralteiskaya Sloboda. The interior of the museum is designed as a Tatar hut. The museum presents the life of the Tatar people. You can see utensils and national Tatar clothes, books, as well as explore the history of the Admiralteiskaya Sloboda and the Bishbalta Settlement (the place where Tatar woodworkers lived for a long time, “Balta Ostasy” means carpenters, woodcutters, joiners. Literal translation from the Tatar “Bishbalta” is “five axes” – ed.). One of the most interesting exhibits is an XVIII century silver mirror.

Exhibits for the museum were collected for several years. Residents of the district and a veteran community took part in the creation of the museum together with the Academy of Sciences of the RT.

The new project is an exhibition with items of archaeological research collected by students of the school under the guidance of archaeologist Albert Burkhanov. There are the marching cauldron of the XVI-XVII centuries, coins, decorations, ceramic products, axes.

The museum hosts master classes for schoolchildren where they study the traditions of the Tatar people.

Sergey Mironov, the head of the Kirovsky and Moskovsky districts’ administration, and Ilnar Khidiyatov, the head of the Department of Education, visited the Tatar school as well.