boarding schools. boarding schools. What to watch out for parents of troubled teenagers

There were many options: "inferior", "mentally retarded", "orphan", "sad", "unhappy", "destitute", etc. Only one girl stood out from the general series of statements: "brilliant", "gifted", "special". During the discussion, it turned out that she herself studied at a specialized mathematical boarding school.

Obviously, most of the responses were associated with boarding schools for orphans, children with mental disabilities and children with serious health problems: hearing impaired, visually impaired, cerebral palsy.

But this opinion is wrong. Quite healthy, financially secure, smart and talented schoolchildren study in boarding schools. Why there, and not in a regular school? The point is in a special form of education, which distinguishes boarding schools - the child spends here not only days, but also nights. It looks like a five-day day in kindergarten: parents bring their son or daughter to school on Monday, and pick them up on Friday evening. You can stay there for the weekend. The reasons for such a study schedule are various. And there are several types of boarding schools.

For the rich and busy - private boarding schools

One of them is private boarding schools. They are very reminiscent of the "closed" boarding schools that existed in Soviet times. For mere mortals, access there was closed, the contingent of students were the children of diplomats and other professionals working abroad. Not all countries had their own schools at the embassy of the USSR, and going to local educational institutions was forbidden for ideological reasons. So the parents left the children school age in Russia. In the absence of caring grandparents, the guys ended up in a special boarding school.

If funds allow, any child can be enrolled in modern boarding schools. Busy dads and moms, earning money day and night, are enough today. Parents simply physically do not have the time or energy to pay due attention to their child. And in a private boarding school, the child is under supervision, grows, studies in good, almost home conditions. Children whose parents live in another city or country also often study in boarding schools.

There are no special innovations in the schedule. Daytime lessons. After lunch - rest, walks, excursions, visits to circles, sports sections. Additional classes and specialized training are possible - foreign languages, legal or economic cycle, mathematical and natural science specialization, etc.

How to get there?

You need to conclude an agreement with the school and pay for the stay in the boarding house. In some private institutions subject testing is carried out. It is especially common among high school students: the school assumes the obligation to enter the university. Therefore, children are selected whose knowledge base will allow them to quickly prepare them for the declared institute. But if a student of the tenth grade is still at odds with, then even the most ingenious preparation will not "reach" him in a year to the level of the Faculty of Economics or the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.

"Brilliant", "gifted", "special" - remember the epithets mentioned at the beginning? It is for such children that boarding schools are created with special conditions learning. However, since 1988, many of them have been renamed into specialized educational and scientific centers (SSC). In each class of such a boarding school, there are several winners of Russian educational Olympiads, most of the graduates enter the "difficult" faculties of supervising universities. The most famous institution of the physical, mathematical and chemical profile is the A.N. Kolmogorov School at Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov.

You can be talented, especially gifted not only in mathematics, physics, etc. This group of boarding schools includes sports and choreographic schools.

The schedule of classes is different from the usual - there are special programs. Lessons do not end, say, exactly at one o'clock, but can continue intermittently in the afternoon. And in schools of the Olympic reserve, before major competitions, children train almost the whole day. The children go to their parents for the holidays. The rest of the time is spent within the walls of the boarding school.

Boarding schools "for clever men and clever women" recruit students from all over the country: not only Moscow is rich in talents. For example, the same School of A.N. Kolmogorova accepts young citizens of Russia in the tenth and eleventh grades, regardless of their place of residence.

Formally, any specialized boarding school provides a general secondary education. In fact, often all efforts are aimed at the development of children according to their profile. It is no secret that the majority of graduates of sports boarding schools are not strong in mathematics and literature. Teachers advise sending only those children whose future will definitely be connected with a particular direction to specialized boarding schools. Only a few manage to enter a regular university after a ballet school. If for some reason: illness, loss of physical form, etc., the ballet career did not work out, the young talent goes nowhere. It is very difficult to adapt to ordinary life, hence the many broken destinies.

How to get there?

Pass the entrance test. In sports boarding schools, children are usually recruited from among secondary school students who are engaged in sections.

Not only good physical data are needed, but also experience in a particular sport. The highest level is the schools of the Olympic reserve, they train professional athletes. You will have to fight for the right to become a student of such an institution. Especially if the choice fell on a mass sport - football, hockey, gymnastics, volleyball or basketball. They accept only those who can really rise to the level of the youth team and above.

To enter the department of choreographic art of the Moscow state academy choreography, must pass creative competition. In the secondary school at the Moscow State Academy of Arts they are accepted from the age of ten. In the future, there is an opportunity to receive secondary specialized and higher specialized education.

Boarding schools specialized in school subjects conduct entrance examinations during summer holidays to be able to come to nonresident applicants. In the School of A.N. Kolmogorov there is an opportunity to test their knowledge - non-residents can take trial correspondence exams. To do this, just download tasks from the Internet, solve them and send them to the address. Exam results are posted on the school website. Next to each name is the number of points scored. True, the correspondence tour has no legal force: in order to become a student of the School, you need to pass face-to-face tests.

For future military

The maximum task of another special group of boarding schools is the training of the elite of the country's Armed Forces. These include military boarding schools: cadet corps, Suvorov and Nakhimov schools, etc. Children live and study here on full state support. In the future, without exams, they enter military universities. However, it is not at all a fact that at the end of the corps, schools, their pupils open only one road - to the army. You can, for example, become a student of the faculty of journalism or jurisprudence of a military institute.

The duration of training is 2 years (after the ninth grade), 3 (after the eighth) or 7 years. The youngest Suvorovites are graduates of the 4th grade of comprehensive schools. The age of applicants should not exceed 11 years.

Suvorovites and Nakhimovites receive general education and initial military training (sometimes according to the type of troops). foreign language advanced program.

But in military boarding schools there is a strict selection according to physical and intellectual data. So, for example, in order to get admission to the entrance exams to the First Cadet Corps of the FPS of Russia, the average score of the certificate for grade 9 must be at least 4.

How to get there?

Familiarize yourself with the rules of admission. They are the same for all educational institutions of this type. It is also necessary to provide a certificate from the school on academic performance, or a certificate of nine years of education. Pass a medical examination, professional psychological testing and a physical fitness test.

Then general education exams follow: mathematics, Russian and foreign languages.

Children of military personnel who have served for at least 20 years in the ranks of the Armed Forces, provided successful delivery exams are enrolled out of competition.

Orphans are enrolled without exams, after a medical examination and psychological testing.

Who is boarding school for?

K. I. Razumov, specialist in child and adolescent psychology:

“No matter what your family circumstances are, do not rush to send your child to a boarding school. At a minimum, you need to test him with a good psychologist. Or consult with teachers.

Children experience separation from their parents in different ways. Someone adapts almost immediately, makes new friends, actively participates in school life.

Others live with the feeling that their loved ones have betrayed them, left them to the mercy of fate. Moreover, such a reaction is more common in children who are truly talented. Many of them are very vulnerable.

A good option is to send your child to a summer camp or forest school to start. Let him try to do without his parents.

And in no case do not make the decision to transfer to a boarding school on your own! Even if you are sure that the new form of education opens up tremendous opportunities for the child. Explain your position to him. And give the student the right to choose."

Parent's notebook

Questions are answered by the head of the press service of the Moscow Department of Education, A.V. Gavrilov.

What should parents do if the teacher hints at a monetary reward for a good mark in a quarter, half a year? What should I do if the administration of the educational institution regularly, once a month, requires parents to contribute large enough amounts for the needs of the school?

Realizing the goals and objectives of cadet education, we are trying not to lose the main female qualities of pupils. For this purpose, the concept of education in a cadet boarding school for girls was developed, the implementation of which is carried out according to three programs.

1. The program of civil and military-patriotic education.

The main attention in the education of cadets is given to the military-patriotic direction. The solemn oath of a cadet is taken at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Hill.

Pupils meet at the lessons of courage with veterans of the Great Patriotic War, heroes of Russia, soldiers-internationalists, visited the sacred places of our Motherland, the hero cities of St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kursk, Belgorod.

Pupils showed excellent combat skills during the solemn passage through Red Square on November 7, 2006, dedicated to the anniversary parade on November 7, 1941.

The following actions have become traditional:

concerts and targeted assistance to veterans of the Great Patriotic War,
soldiers - veterans and disabled people who were injured in the zones of military conflicts;
"Memory Watch";
invitation of veterans of all wars to the holiday "Victory Day".

Pupils of the cadet boarding school "MPGV" are active participants in patriotic events held by state authorities, the public and veteran organizations, laureates of military-patriotic song festivals in 2004-2007, prize-winners of sports competitions, dedicated to the Day Defender of the Fatherland.

To ensure the quality of practical field exercises on the basics of military service, pupils annually go to the cadet recreational and educational camp “Patriot”, where they learn drill and fire training in practice.

To deepen the understanding of the pupils about the basics of military service, about military discipline and organization, the course "Combat Training" was introduced.

2. The program for the formation of an intellectually, morally, culturally and spiritually developed personality.

To express musical and creative abilities, in order to instill interest in musical art, for the further development of spirituality as a personality trait, the following circle classes have been introduced:

"Vocal" and "Choral singing" form the primary skills of performing vocal works, as well as nurture a sense of collectivism and responsibility, teach interaction in joint creativity.

"Piano" develops musical taste, the ability to listen and perceive classical piano and symphonic music, foster a love for folk music, the work of Russian classical composers, Soviet composers, and the best representatives of foreign music.

For the development in children of coordination of movements, plasticity of the body, endurance, dexterity, musicality, rhythm, a sense of self-confidence, familiarization with world culture, the formation of aesthetic ideals based on mastering the art of choreography, circles have been introduced:

"Folk dance";
"Pop dance";
"Historic Ballroom Dancing".

Classes in the theater circle develop the individual creative abilities of pupils, develop the skills of dialogic and monologue speech, and expand their knowledge in the field of literature.

Dance art teaches a person beauty. Moreover, this is not only the beauty of movements, but also the beauty of appearance, an important element of which (especially for a woman) is a hairstyle. The purpose of mastering the primary skills of the art of creating hairstyles is the circle "Cunning curl".

Decorative and applied art is a special world artistic creativity, the field of art objects created over the centuries-old history of human development is infinitely diverse. Acquaintance of children with three forms of artistic activity: visual, decorative and constructive is the main goal of the applied direction additional education in which circles work:

"Art";
"Young gardener";
"Press Center".

To improve health, develop motor and intellectual potential, improve the level of physical and psychological qualities of those involved in accordance with their age capabilities, the following circles of sports have been introduced:

"Single combat";
"Fencing";
"Volleyball";
"Tennis";
"Athletics";
"Skis",
"Swimming".

The directions included in the plan of additional education make it possible to implement the following tasks:

Compensate for the lack of certain training courses in the basic plan. With a minimum number of hours per subject in the basic plan, reinforce this subject with hours of additional education.

To create a "success situation" in self-realization and self-determination of each pupil on the basis of the traditions of the cadet women's movement, taking into account the modern requirements of the time.

3. The program of additional education, which includes the development of the creative individual abilities of pupils and the cadet component: drill and the basics of medical knowledge.

The same program includes circles in which girls acquire the skills of a “skillful housewife” and learn the basics of family relationships.
The general education program of secondary complete general education provides additional in-depth training of pupils in the subjects of general education and cadet profile.

To strengthen the basic knowledge of students, the following circle classes are included:
"Informatics" expands students' understanding of the possibilities of using a modern computer.

"My Moscow" immerses the child in the world of history native land, increasing his knowledge of the capital of our Motherland throughout the centuries-old history of the city.

"Psychotechnics of communication" teaches the skills of mutual understanding and communication with peers, people around them, social adaptation in society.

Mugs "Literary Lounge" and "Linguistics" reinforce the subject area "Philology» , allowing to develop the creative abilities of pupils.

Our achievements

Pupils of the cadet boarding school No. 9 take Active participation in district, city and federal events, competitions, festivals, exhibitions, where they show good results:

Laureates of the XX city festival of children's creativity "Hope", 2009;
Laureates of the XII city festival of children's creativity "Young talents of Muscovy", 2005-2009;
Laureates of the All-Russian festival "Young talents of the Fatherland" 2009;
Laureates of the XI city festival "Ecology", 2008;
Laureates of the festival "Gifted children". 2005-2009;
Winners of the solemn passage through Red Square dedicated to the historical parade of 1941 in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008;
Winners of the competition of artistic creativity among pupils of cadet schools and cadet boarding schools of the city of Moscow (painting) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009;
Winners of district and city sports competitions.

Admission conditions

In the cadet boarding school No. 9 "MPGV", girls who live in this territory (administrative district and the city of Moscow) are accepted as a matter of priority for education in 5th grade who graduated primary school to "4" and "5", fit for health reasons (1-2nd health group) and expressed a desire to study at a cadet boarding school.

Documents are accepted only from legal representatives (parents and guardians) upon presentation of a passport.

Parents (legal representatives) who wish to educate their children in the cadet corps provide the following documents:

1. Application of the established form;

2. 3 photographs (3x4cm);

3. 3 copies of the birth certificate;

4. A copy of the personal file from the school (certified by the director);

5. Evaluation sheet for the last year of study, certified by the director;

6. Characteristics, certified by the director of the school;

7. Copies of passports of both parents (guardians) 2pcs;

8. Certificate from the place of work of both parents - 1 copy;

9. An extract from the house book or an extract from the financial-personal account;

10. A document confirming the social status of children and parents (legal representatives).

Medical documents:

11. Medical card (form No. 026-U-2000, which indicates fit for training at a cadet school with a signature, a round seal of the head physician with a full name and a triangular seal of the polyclinic)

Pediatrician Ophthalmologist Dentist

Otolaryngologist Neurologist Endocrinologist

Cardiologist

If you want your child to grow up as a strong and comprehensively developed personality, with a good upbringing and tempered character, without bad habits, take a closer look at cadet schools. The goal of cadet education is to educate a patriotic, disciplined person.

Education in the cadet corps differs significantly from the usual general education. In addition to compulsory subjects, children study military history, the basics of military affairs, undergo enhanced physical training. The school day here lasts longer, and the teachers do not make any concessions to the children. Another significant difference is the strictest discipline. Pupils wear a special uniform, often walk in formation, salute their seniors in rank. During the holidays, the guys participate in competitions, cultural and sightseeing events.

Varieties of cadet schools

Cadet corps can supervise the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the FSB and organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In such institutions, military discipline: permanent residence, dismissals strictly on weekends and holidays. The daily routine is carefully planned, the pupils practically do not have free time. It's hard to get here, and it's not easy to study! Therefore, most often here you can meet children who plan to enter the internal affairs bodies or military service in the future.

There are also cadet schools established by the Moscow Department of Education. Only children with a Moscow residence permit can enter them. Many of these schools also operate as a boarding school, but it is much easier to get a dismissal here.

Admission conditions

The cadet corps accepts children who are fit for health reasons (the list of contraindications is set out in Appendix 3 to order N 473 of 16. 10. 2002 of the Moscow Health Committee) and who wish to study. For admission, you must submit an application to the Admissions Committee on time and attach a package required documents(indicated on the website of the educational institution), undergo diagnostics at the MCCS in the following subjects: Russian language, mathematics, English language and medical board. In addition, candidates for admission are tested for the level of physical fitness and an interview with a psychologist. Based on the results of the events, the Admissions Committee, taking into account the state of health, motivation, the presence of additional achievements (awards received for participation in creative and sports events), the level of physical fitness and academic performance, makes a decision. At the same time, candidates sent according to the target recruitment have the priority right to enrollment. Orphans and children of military personnel also enjoy benefits upon admission.

When enrolling in a cadet school, there are age restrictions. Kids are not taken here, with rare exceptions. It is too late to think about entering high school as well, since the training program is designed for a certain period, at least 3 years. The ideal time for admission is the end of elementary school.

Preobrazhensky Cadet Corps

The address: Moscow, m. Rokossovsky Boulevard, st. Losinoostrovskaya, 22a;

Founder:

Education: Basic, secondary

Mode: boarding school for boys, five-day school week, on weekends children go home.

The Preobrazhensky Cadet Corps is a state-owned state educational institution, the purpose of which is to provide quality education, moral, physical and social development of students.

Talented teachers work here. They face difficult tasks: to interest students, to create a favorable emotional and psychological atmosphere in the classroom, to teach children to work in a team, and, of course, to present the material in an accessible and understandable way. And they succeed. Upon graduation, the cadets enter the Academy of the FSB, FSO and other law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.

KSI No. 5 implements educational programs in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard, as well as additional education programs in the following areas:

mathematics,
physics,
biology,
social science,
warfare,
bullet shooting,
lego construction and modeling,
museology,
body-building,
basketball,
handball,
Athletics,
football,
motorsport,
ensemble of wind instruments or orchestra to choose from,
choral singing,
theatrical and musical creativity.

The cadet school has all the conditions for the healthy development of children: wet cleaning and ventilation of the premises are carried out daily, and an optimal thermal regime is maintained. All pupils of KSI No. 5 receive tasty and balanced six meals a day. The daily routine is carefully planned: lessons are replaced by walks, physical training and meal breaks. Therefore, despite the rich basic and additional educational program, children do not experience overwork.

The school is located in a large building, on the territory of which there are:

classrooms and classrooms for self-study,
auditorium and dance halls,
library,
large and small gym,
gym,
shooting range,
ski base.

In addition, the street has an obstacle course with a rubber coating, a motorsports playground, football, volleyball, basketball and tennis courts, a gymnasium and a jogging track.

At the disposal of the educational institution everything necessary for the organization educational process equipment: PCs, projectors and plasma panels, interactive whiteboards, MFPs, music centers.

First Moscow Cadet Corps

The address: Moscow, Timiryazevskaya, st. Vuchetich, 30, building 1

Branches:

Fourth Novomikhalkovskiy proezd, 14, building 3
st. Zelenogradskaya, 9

Founder: Moscow Department of Education

Education: primary, basic, secondary

Mode: boarding school, teaching in the morning, additional education in the afternoon; in branch No. 3 - daytime training. Saturday and Sunday, as well as holidays pupils go home.

The First Moscow Cadet Corps is a public institution. Unlike other cadet schools, not only middle and high school programs are implemented here, but also primary education(in two branches), there is preparation for school. For the youngest, there are speech therapy classes, a course "English for kids", a program of social and psychological adaptation "a fairy tale of communication". From 8 to 10 years old, children begin to study English in more depth: the courses "Fascinating English" and "English. phonetics".

KSI №1 can rightfully be proud of the number of sections and circles. Real fighters are brought up here, comprehensively developed. The discipline corresponds to a military institution.

Additional education programs:

in-depth study of mathematics;
story;
jurisprudence;
design and research activities: museums, parks, estates; secrets of the Russian language;
natural and physical and mathematical modeling: chess, the world around us, geographical research, chemistry puzzles, entertaining mathematics, programming;
museum business;
entertaining English;
social science;
aircraft modeling, computer modeling, rocket modeling;
robotics;
entertaining physics;
fire and pilot training;
warfare;
all-around TRP, gymnastics, swimming, basketball, football;
sports shooting;
sambo and hand-to-hand combat, judo;
fire and rescue business (preparation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations);
rhythmic gymnastics, ballroom and folk dances;

In the boarding school in question, all conditions for normal living have been created, five meals a day are provided. The building was designed and equipped in accordance with SanPin standards and the requirements of current legislation. The cadet corps includes educational and living quarters, a canteen, and a medical unit. The residential complex has 60 bedrooms, designed to accommodate up to 240 students. Each room has a separate bathroom. There are three additional rooms per floor. Here, children play with their peers, relax, and engage in self-training.

Material and technical equipment

In the school building there are all the necessary for conducting theoretical and practical classes, self-study and leisure activities, premises:

Study rooms;
Auditorium;
Workshops;
Laboratories in chemistry and physics, biology;
Cabinets for radio-electronic technologies and informatics;
Library;
Large and small gym, gym, swimming pool;
An outdoor sports complex has been built on the adjacent territory, which includes a large and small obstacle course, a gymnastic complex, a hockey, volleyball and basketball field, and a running track.

All of the above premises have the necessary technical equipment.

Moscow Cossack Corps named after Sholokhov

The address: Moscow, st. March. Chuikova, 28, building 4

Founder: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Education: Basic, secondary in accordance with GEF

Mode: boarding school, 5-day academic week, classes from 8.30 to 15.00

Moscow Presidential Cadet School. Sholokhov is a state institution established in 2015 on the basis of KSHI No. 7. Here, children study from grades 5-11, preparing to enter the higher civil and military institutions of the Russian Federation. Children whose parents serve in the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation enjoy the priority right to enter.

Additional education programs:

basketball,
hand-to-hand combat,
folk and ballroom dancing,
history of the Cossacks, internal troops, Orthodox culture,
young museologist,
guide,
military and combat training,
commander school,
operator-editor.

In the cadet school, great attention is paid to the safety of pupils. The territory of the building is guarded around the clock, is under the system of external and internal video surveillance. The institution operates in boarding school mode. Residential buildings are equipped with spacious rooms designed to accommodate 2-6 people, a complete set of furniture, inventory, separate bathrooms, utility rooms. Five meals a day.

Material and technical equipment

On the territory of the school are:

assembly and choreographic hall;
wrestling room;
2 museums;
sports town: obstacle course, running track, playgrounds, laser shooting range.

Classrooms are equipped with workstations, didactic materials, ergonomic furniture, meet SanPin standards.

Moscow Georgievsky Cadet Corps

The address: Moscow, st. Mal. Botanicheskaya, d.24B

Founder: Moscow Department of Education

Education: Basic, secondary

Mode: boarding school

The facility operates 5 days a week. The kids go home for the weekend. Also, unlike other cadet schools, the guys, if desired, can go on dismissal in the middle of the week. Education is conducted from the 7th grade and provides for the assimilation of the GEF program and additional education. Most of the pupils of the school are children of military personnel and orphans (preferential category).

During the holidays, the school attracts cadets to numerous events: excursions and cultural programs, competitions, cadet balls, etc.

Additional education programs:

military history,
fundamentals of military service,
young shooter,
Russian Patriots,
commander school,
volleyball,
academic choir,
vocal ensemble.

The residential complex includes 18 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 shower rooms. All children receive free six meals a day, medical care and, if necessary, psychological assistance.

Material and technical equipment

In the educational building and on the adjacent territory of the cadet school in question are located:

auditorium;
Museum;
library;
16 classrooms;
conference hall,
workshop;
2 classes for laboratory work;
gym;
sports town: volleyball, basketball, gymnastic grounds, running track, obstacle course and jump pit.

Classrooms meet the standards of the educational standard and the requirements of SanPin and are equipped with modern technology, furniture and didactic materials. Great attention is also paid to the organization of proper lighting.

School for girls "Moscow boarding school of state pupils"

The address: Moscow, Volzhsky Boulevard, 52/29, building 1

Founder: Moscow Department of Education

Education: Basic, secondary

Mode: boarding school

A feature of the educational process of the considered school for girls is the study, along with compulsory subjects GEF, the cadet component.

Additional education programs:

young guide school
jurisprudence,
fundamentals of military service,
painting, graphics,
percussion instruments (drums, xylophone, timpani),
ballroom and folk dances,
pop vocal,
artistic reading.

Great attention is paid here to the organization of a health-saving environment and the promotion of healthy lifestyle life. The management monitors the observance of the sanitary and hygienic regime: daily airing of the premises, wet cleaning, use of ergonomic furniture in the residential and educational complex. Pupils adhere to a strict daily routine, which includes mandatory recreational activities.

Material and technical equipment

Classes are equipped with ergonomic furniture with height adjustment, computers, projectors, interactive whiteboards and other teaching aids, teaching materials. In addition to classrooms, on the territory of the building are located:

Auditorium;
Sports and dance hall;
Music and literature class;
Labor office;
2 computer science classrooms;
A big library;
Museum;
Gym.

According to the format of education, the closest to the cadet schools are. You can get acquainted with the range of services and choose the boarding house that suits you on the pages of our catalog.

There is Hogwarts in Moscow, and it is in the department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It all starts, as a rule, at the age of ten with an unexpected letter. You can get here only thanks to the origin, almost no one knows about this school, and the best teachers are believed to teach here.

“One fine day in February 2008, dad returned from work and said: “The telegram arrived today.” We didn’t really have the Internet yet,” graduate Tanya, who lived with her family in a military camp in the Far East eight years ago, chatters, throwing her long hair from shoulder to shoulder with a practiced gesture and stirring coffee with marshmallows. - It was reported that a cadet corps for girls was being opened in Moscow. The first intake - 180 people, the criteria are very strict: the average score is not lower than 4.7, perfect health, girls only from the outback, fathers are officers, heroes of Russia or fought in Chechnya. Dad asks: “Do you want to? If you pass, you will get a ticket to life, because this is Moscow.Tanya has big eyes, thin wrists with bracelets and mobile facial expressions - when she frowns, her forehead touchingly curls up like an inverted comma. At twenty-two, she is simultaneously studying for a master's degree, works as an administrator in a beauty salon and runs an amateur PR agency: together with her friends, makeup artists and photographers, she arranges shootings, in which she herself acts as a model.

Tanya is one of the first graduates of the Boarding School of the Ministry of Defense. The closed school for girls was founded eight years ago; eight and a half hundred people from all over Russia study in it. Enrolling in the fifth grade, girls spend seven years in a boarding school. Here, as in a monastery - you can only go to the city on an organized excursion with educators, once a month on leave or going home on vacation . “I’m from a military family, I moved so many times: as soon as you settled in, found new friends, dad comes and says:“ We are being transferred, ”we collect things in a day and leave for another city. Thought it wouldn't be a problem. But this is the toughest thing in my life" says Tanya.

KVN

Hogwarts of the Ministry of Defense is located behind a blank brick fence on the territory between Dynamo and Begovaya. Inside the yellow building, gazebos, exemplary lawns and a fountain. A notice at the checkpoint forbids bringing laptops into the property. Groups of identically dressed girls of different ages run between the buildings. “Hello! they say. - Hello! - Hello! - Hello!" The rules of the boarding house require each pupil to greet any adult passing by without fail, so in the five minutes of the road from the checkpoint to the assembly hall, I manage to say “Hello” several dozen times in return. However, there are few strangers here, apparently: neither parents nor friends are allowed to enter the fence.

Students of the Moscow Cadet Corps on the territory of the boarding school of pupils of the Ministry of DefensePhoto: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS

Journalists need to be accredited by the Ministry of Defense. The formal basis in my case is the qualifying round of the cadet KVN: they came to the boarding school to the pupilsSuvorov students from Moscow, Tver and Kazan, as well as students Moscow military music school. All boys, of course.

“What sets us apart from the rest? We are the only team that put on makeup today, - the pupils of the boarding house joke from the stage. - Well, we hope!

Participants joke mostly about sleep, food and selfie sticks. From time to time, the incomprehensible word “ridge” sounds from the stage. As eighth-grader Arina explains to me in the corridor, this means "dismissal." Only if the cadets go to the "ridges" every Sunday, the pupils of the boarding school - once a month. At the checkpoint, the girl must be met by her parents or a trusted person, and after nine hours, bring her to the same place. After school, Arina wants to enter a military university, but for now she works as a journalist on a school television channel, not so long ago she interviewed cosmonaut Leonov who came to the boarding school. The press secretary of the boarding house Taisiya hangs over Arina. Talking with pupils is allowed only in her presence. “For breaking the rule,” the press secretary warns with a bloodthirsty smile, “it will not be her problem, but the editorial office.”

And how do you spend the lulls? - I ask Arina.

I meet my parents and we go to some shopping center.

So! What other mall? Under no circumstances should this be written. We go to museums, to theaters, - Taisiya hisses.

What's wrong with going to the mall? I ask.

Not allowed. A military establishment, everything is strictly according to the regulations. They change their underpants here according to the schedule, - not at all embarrassed by the presence of Arina, Taisiya confidentially informs me , after which, in full accordance with Vyazemsky's phrase that the severity of laws in Russia is moderated by their non-execution, it suddenly disappears without a trace, giving me complete freedom of action.

However, without a watchful eye, the smiles of the pupils do not become less sincere, and the stories - less cheerful. Yes, it is very difficult to enter: you need to pass Russian, English and mathematics and pass an interview with a psychologist.Yes, training is completely free. Yes, all graduates go to university. No, there are almost no fights.Yes, the discipline is tough, but there are many circles and it is interesting to study. The punishment for misconduct is deprivation of dismissal or expulsion, but the girls cannot remember a single such case: “Behavior does not suffer.”

Classes at the School of JournalismPhoto: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS

Can I hang a poster on the wall in my room?

Yes, there is a special magnetic board above the table. Well... If it's not the first floor. We have a demonstration building, and it must be perfectly clean, because guests are coming.

Charter

According to the stories of its graduates, the daily routine at the boarding school for pupils of the Ministry of Defense is built as follows. Rise, breakfast, after breakfast - building on which they check appearance pupils. It is forbidden to paint, let down your hair or collect it in a ponytail too - it is prescribed to wear braids. “If there is a rumor that one of the chiefs is on the line, everyone boils, especially those with manicures, and immediately hide.”

The state pays for everything, from pens and notebooks to laptops and air tickets home twice a year.In the rooms, the girls live in pairs, two rooms - a block, in each block there are two toilets, a bathroom and a separate dressing room. Clothing, ranging from tights and sports uniforms to down jackets and ball gowns, is also provided by the boarding school. There are many things: for each day of the week a separate set. The pupils are completely spared from everyday worries: bags with dirty clothes are handed over to the basement and the next day they get clean by lunchtime.

when the girls return from the “ridges”, their bags are inspected at the checkpoint for prohibited items

Food is healthy. “Almost the country’s chief nutritionist came and looked at what was left on the plates, what we eat, what we don’t eat.” Potatoes are given in the form of mashed potatoes on holidays. Pasta "never happened at all", instead of them - zucchini, eggplant or stewed cabbage. Chips, crackers, condensed milk, mayonnaise are prohibited: when the girls return from the “ridges”, their bags are examined at the checkpoint for prohibited items.

After lunch - additional classes: a choice of theater studio, singing, dancing, swimming, equestrianism, tennis, football, figure skating with ex-world champions and yoga. Almost every week - trips to museums and theaters, plus meetings with interesting people: over the eight years of the boarding house, celebrities from Putin to Vika Gazinskaya and Ksenia Sobchak have visited here (Sergey Shoigu is traditionally considered a favorite guest).

Boarding school students in the libraryPhoto: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS

Girls from elementary grades receive mobile phones in the evening for a couple of hours - the rest of the time the equipment is with the teachers. From the tenth grade, they stop picking up phones. WiFi access and social networks after the release is limited.

Communication with the opposite sex is also strictly regulated: students of military schools are brought to the boarding house for joint events like the same KVN, and discos are held several times a season. The culmination of communication is sustained in a fabulously romantic spirit: a ball for which dances are learned all year long.“Ball gowns are getting straight up fun. Their whole room, you stand like a princess. The only way to go on a date with a boy before leaving the boarding school is to do it at the time of dismissal (if parents or a trusted adult allow).

The only way to go on a date with a boy before graduation from the boarding school is to do it at the time of dismissal

On Saturdays, in the political information class, the girls appointed by the teacher briefly retell the news of the week. There is a lot of talk about patriotism in the boarding school, but indispensable military career graduates are not set up - rather they are told that they “should grow up to be good mothers, worthy wives, and in general educated people". In recent years, 10-15% of girls have gone to military universities.

Reality

The graduates' stories about the tricks they had to use to overcome the prohibitions will make a full-fledged play for Theatre.Doc. The play will be anonymous - most girls still value relationships with teachers and caregivers and regularly come to the boarding house.

1. “Your clothes were taken away, there is not enough sweets. There is always something to be done. You can't sit down and say, "Please don't touch me." Only at night or while showering. But if you have been in the bathroom for a long time, this is already explanatory. I wrote explanations for everything. I had this stack. She put on her shoes - explanatory. After lights out, she was furious - explanatory. Watched a movie at night - explanatory. We have already made fun of: who will get more. Even if you put on a short skirt on dismissal, they will certainly tell you: “You are a pupil, how can you!”

2. “Discotheques were rare. Of course, we were getting ready, trying to somehow imperceptibly put on makeup - after all, it’s also impossible at a disco. It is light outside, the music is different, in general, a specific spectacle. It happened that for all the tenth grades - we had a cycle of 100 people - fifteen unfortunate cadets would be brought. Skinny, little ones. It wasn't very great. I personally did not welcome communication with the cadets: it seemed to me that the relationship was doomed, there was no point in seeing each other once a month. In addition, they live in the barracks for twenty people, discussing all the details, sharing. But this did not bother many, as soon as the boy appeared: “Oh, we should rather communicate.” Novels, calls, texts, only the lights out begins, life immediately. They came to the checkpoint, some gave flowers, some gave chocolates. Someone at the discos even managed to kiss, but this was followed strictly, and then everything was sorted out at the formation. There was another case: a Suvorov worker approached the boarding house on his dismissal, called from below, the girl looked out the window, because of this they made such a fuss!

Mini football trainingPhoto: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS

3. “You go out with your girlfriends on Sunday, all in the same clothes. In the metro, everyone is looking at us, whispering: “Boarding school? Not a boarding school? The views are slanting, it infringes. Now all the stalls have been demolished, but before there was a stall on a stall near the metro. And the thought occurred to me: why not meet a girl in some stall, change into your clothes somewhere in the bushes, leave her things and calmly go for a walk, like a free man? It was so scary the first time! We approach the girl, she was selling fruits and vegetables near Begovaya, her name was Marina. We say: “We are from a boarding house” - “Yes, I often see you, they are the same.” - “Can we leave your jackets and pick them up in the evening?” She first: "How so?" - “Well, like this, quietly. The main thing is to hide it so that no one takes it, otherwise the things are state-owned, we will be punished for them. In general, Marina became her own person, every Sunday she had packages with blue jackets, all signed. We carried sweets and chocolates to her in gratitude.

4. “From the dismissal, everyone dragged forbidden food - they hid it in boots, and sewed secret pockets. Fantasy worked in this regard. When they told us that they were checking the dormitory buildings - and they are completely inspected, the clothes in the closets are sorted out - they took them away in briefcases with them to lessons so that, God forbid, they would not be found. At the end of the month, stocks ran out. The most offensive thing is when someone gets sick with chickenpox, for example, quarantine will begin, and for three months in a row you can sit in a boarding house without leaving. But nothing, you sit and endure. Each of us understood that it was not easy. educational institution, we are special, since you study here, this is your choice.

5. “In a boarding house you always dream: it’s evening, you would go for a walk, you envy those who are free. And now you think: how good it was, they will feed you and clothe you, and now you have to do everything yourself. What was the most unusual thing about leaving the boarding house? There are no such dull faces as in the rest of Moscow. The boarding house is a separate country, there is always green grass, the sun is shining, everyone is friendly. Usually you won't see rudeness. And the streets of Moscow are full of it.”

Elite of Russia

“For the first six months, I called my mother every day. There is a seven-hour difference with Khabarovsk, it’s three in the morning there, and I’m crying: “take me out of here,” Tanya shares her experiences with enthusiasm, as a person who tells about trials she has overcome long and triumphantly. She is more frank than other graduates: partly because of her character, partly because she graduated a long time ago and has already managed to graduate from the university with honors.

Why do girls and their parents need all this?

There is one more rule, which the press secretary of the boarding school warns about from the threshold: it is impossible to ask pupils about families. The risk of hurting a nerve is too great: the school is primarily designed for the daughters of the military from distant garrisons and those whose fathers died in military conflicts recent years. The fact that the boarding house is the only available social lift is clearly explained to the girls even at enrollment: “You will become the elite of Russia and will go all your life with this title” - and then they repeat it so many times that the girls themselves begin to believe in it. The restrictions on freedom within this logic turn out to be necessary condition and a symbol of its own exclusivity. Everyone is proud of the boarding house, and sooner or later the words “elite”, “a unique place”, “a rare chance” will flash in everyone’s speech. In a word, all the same Hogwarts - only specific, in Moscow.

Preparing for classes in the hostelPhoto: Mikhail Japaridze/TASS

“When I graduated from the boarding school, I was faced with the fact that I ran out of classes at three in the afternoon, and I don’t understand: what should I do? Tanya continues. - Previously, the day was always scheduled. At first I tried to perceive it as a vacation, and then I realized that I needed to organize some kind of movement. You are already bored with life, you need to constantly be somewhere, develop, I have not one job, but two, and I am also studying at the magistracy. And in reality, Moscow does not believe in tears: no one will pity you, will not pat you on the head, I myself learned this Moscow anti-sympathy ... People who slow you down - you need to refuse them, and on the contrary, strive for people from whom you can learn. In the same Khabarovsk, I have only two friends left, but both of them have an active life position: one bought a car, got her license, the other graduated from makeup courses, she will give a head start to many in Moscow. When I come to my city, I see that people there are softer, they have a measured life, they are kinder. I'm not like this. I think so - well, what does she whine, she can go and do everything herself: learn, earn. Thanks to the boarding house, I was in all the museums, I saw all the performances, I can keep up the conversation about the theater, I saw Putin when he came to the boarding house, I asked Serdyukov a question personally. Yes, I even know corny how to hold a fork, and what kind of knife to eat. Why could I and you can't?

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