Ilsur Metshin inspected the new building Lukomorye of the gymnasium №93

The mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin visited the new extension to the building of gymnasium № 93 with a Russian ethno-cultural component in the Sovetsky district. It took a year to construct a new three-storied building Lukomorye on Krasnaya Pozitsia street, 37. Now there is a gymnasium’s center for supplementary education. The head of the city visited the art gallery, hall, art studio and talked with students.

One of the city's most famous schools, gymnasium № 93, was founded in 1964 and was provided with an additional building for its 55th anniversary. Irina Alexandrovskaya, the Director of the gymnasium and head of the Russian national cultural association of Tatarstan, thanked the mayor of Kazan for improvement of the approaching road to the gymnasium – the road along Krasnaya Pozitsia street was extended directly to the building.

“The idea of construction of supplementary education building has been generating for a long time. Initially, we wanted to divide the hall and the dining area, which were combined in the school's project, but later it became possible to organize classrooms for studying fine arts in the new building”, - said Irina Alexandrovskaya, the Director of the gymnasium.

Now the new building accommodates various activities and supplementary education sections, a new hall with an equipped stage, library and methodological centers, a choreography hall with showers and locker rooms, a choir and an art studio, an ethnographic museum, and an exhibition gallery. The new building is equipped with the accessible environment and a ramp for people with limited mobility.

Presently, 615 students study in 25 classes of the gymnasium. On the basis of the new center for supplementary education of the gymnasium, there is a music school, as well as a school for the future first-grade pupil.

I.Metshin inspected the art gallery, where the works of the famous Kazan artist Irina Antonova are exhibited now. The school hall was presented to the mayor, where the orchestra of the music school students was rehearsing, and other classes.

In the art studio, the mayor talked to second-grade pupils, who told him that in addition to drawing, they play chess, musical instruments, go into English and Russian theater clubs and other classes.

In one of the classes, the mayor met the senior pupils, who participated in the Academic Olympiads. He asked them about their future plans and urged them not to leave the city and choose Kazan universities. Ilsur Metshin wished the students success in their studies and creative work.

The mayor also inspected the renovated dining room, which is located in the old gymnasium building. Capacity of the dining room increased by half after the major overhaul works.