Without social networks and cosmetics: a closed boarding school in Russia teaches girls to be 'keepers of the hearth'

By September 1, near the Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg, a branch of the Moscow boarding school for inmates of the Ministry of Defense will open - this is a closed school for girls. The institution will be located in buildings owned by billionaire Rotenberg.

The guesthouse will bring up “expectant mothers” and “hearth keepers”. Pupils are prohibited from using social networks and painting, and they are only allowed to see their relatives once a month. The hostel compares itself to the Smolny Institute of noble maidens.

"Paper" tells what is known about the St. Petersburg hostel of the Ministry of Defense and how such an institution has been operating in Moscow for 11 years.

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In September, a boarding school for pupils of the Ministry of Defense will work on Bull Island. They will mainly train military daughters

The boarding school for pupils of the Ministry of Defense will open on Bull Island in the Neva Delta, not far from the Gazprom Arena stadium. The institution will occupy the territory of almost the entire island, that is, approximately 8,15 hectares of land. The set was announced for the 5, 6 and 7 classes. The boarding house will work on September 1.

The institution will study the daughters of the military from remote garrisons, girls from single-parent and large families, as well as the children of dead military personnel and participants in hostilities awarded state awards. In the first stream, 240 people will be recruited, and in the future, about 560.

In the Ministry of Defense they saidthat even before the start of accepting documents in the spring of 2019, they received more than 1000 applications. Those wishing to get into the boarding school were asked to complete test tasks: endurance (running at a distance of 1 km), poise (psychological tests) and knowledge of general educational subjects (Russian, mathematics and a foreign language).

In Moscow, a similar guesthouse has been operating since 2008 of the year. It is compared with the Institute of Noble Maidens

In a St. Petersburg boarding school they will be taught according to the same program as in Moscow. There, the institution has been working since 2008 of the year - on the site it is called "a social project for the military personnel of the Russian army." The pension is located on the territory of the former faculty of military conductors, in a building on Polikarpov Street, 21.

On the official website of the guesthouse saysthat students of 5 – 6 classes have three pairs of 1,5 hours per day, physical exercise and self-training. They also have time for daytime sleep and extracurricular activities. According to the rules, inmates should get up at 7 in the morning and go to bed at 21: 30. In high school, another pair of classes is added to the schedule.

In the St. Petersburg boarding school, pupils will study Russian language and literature, mathematics, the basics of computer science, history, social studies, French and Chinese languages, world culture and other general subjects. There will be work School of Music.

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On the site of the institution writethat the idea was borrowed from the Smolny Institute of noble maidens. This educational institution was created in St. Petersburg in 1764 on the orders of Catherine II. His main principle was "education in beauty and joy."

In the guesthouse want to to educate “a woman, a future mother, the keeper of the hearth”, as well as “a comprehensively developed, creative personality that can be realized in the modern conditions of professional competition”. In the training of pupils use a "gender approach", the site says.

Of Action guesthouse for 2018 – 2023 years:

“It is believed that it is better for women to choose the humanitarian areas of professional education, and for men - the technical ones, which are inferior to men in their business qualities. This sex-role approach predicts in advance the failure of a woman leader. At the same time, reality refutes this established opinion: modern Russian women successfully occupy key positions in government, business, science and education, and the army. The gender approach in the organization of training is aimed at creating the conditions for self-realization of a person based on his abilities, capabilities and interests. ”

In the guesthouse count them.that girls better absorb information "when the algorithm, template is given" and are better at coping with typical tasks. The commentary on the program also said that it is more difficult for girls to complete quick-witted tasks.

The Ministry of Defense notes that their pupils annually receive USE points above the national average.

The guesthouse has strict rules. Pupils almost cannot see their relatives, paint and use social networks

According to regulations boarding school, pupils of all ages are forbidden to have sex, use makeup, dye their hair, chew gum, speak loudly at bedtime, “have any financial relations” with each other, give interviews to journalists, take a shower at an inappropriate time for this, and also listen to music from phone and wear jewelry or clothing that is different from the accepted form.

In addition, girls are prohibited from leaving the institution on their own without the assistance of a teacher or parents. Parents are allowed to see only once a month, as it "A special type of educational institution that provides for voluntary-compulsory isolation."

Employees of the guesthouse can confiscate inmates from prohibited products, drinks, medicines, jewelry, as well as books, video and audio recordings that are not appropriate for the age of the girls.

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The girl who escaped from the boarding house of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow anonymously told Wonderzine, that even in the middle of the 2010's, pupils were reported to classmates for violating discipline, cameras were everywhere in the institution, and educators were monitoring accounts on social networks.

The girl who escaped from the board of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow (quote from Wonderzine):

- They gave us only healthy food like broccoli - all because one day the Minister of Defense came to the guesthouse and said that the girls were "a bit overweight." And after that, the pupils were allowed to eat pasta and potatoes only on Saturdays.

According to the girl, the pension was expelled for candid photos on social networks or smoking.

Petersburg guesthouse will appear on the site of an unfinished sports complex owned by billionaire Rotenberg

Starting from 2003, they planned to build a sports and hotel complex for the Yavara Neva Judo Club by billionaire Arkady Rotenberg on Bull Island. Businessman говорилthat it will be Putin’s “brainchild”, with whom they worked together in the club back in 1998.

In 2015, the Rotenberg project received the island for rent for 49 years. There were supposed to open a gym on 1,5, thousands of people, a yacht club, dormitories for athletes and 12 hotel cottages. However, in fact, construction began only in the 2011 year, when, after the dissatisfaction of the city defenders, the city-planning committee approved the project. Subsequently, the completion date of the facility repeatedly carried over for unknown reasons. By evaluation RBC, Rotenberg invested about 8 billion rubles in the project.

In December 2017, St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko claimed that the Yavar-Neva building would be commissioned in 2018. However, in November 2018 стало известноthat instead of a sports complex, a guesthouse will open. how писал RBC, a Rotenberg company, gave Bull Island to the Ministry of Defense in exchange for territory in Moscow - the former military unit in South Chertanov and the Ministry of Defense’s motor depot on Khoroshevskoye Shosse.

To turn the unfinished sports complex on Bull Island into a training center, estimated RBC’s expert, the Ministry of Defense should have invested in it from 1,5 to 2 billion rubles. "Paper" requested a comment from the management of the guesthouse, but at the time of publication did not receive a response.

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