Simferopol gymnasium №1

Infobox School3
name = Simferopol gymnasium №1


established = 1812
type = Public
grades = 1-12
head_name = Principal
head = Igor Kovalyov
city = Simferopol
state = Crimea
country = Ukraine
students = 1200

Simferopol gymnasium №1, located in Simferopol, Crimea, was founded in 1812 and is one of the oldest public schools in Ukraine.

Tavrish, after Simferopolish man gymnasium, was founded in the autumn of 1812 during the reign of Alexander I. Its opening was dictated by the need for middle school children, who had finished lower school courses, to continue their education and prepare for the university.

During its first year, only 17 pupils attended the gymnasium and Fedor Petrovich Zаstavski was its first director. However, by 1835 the number rose to about 477.

Events of Crimean war (1853-1856 yy.) had influence on gymnasium life, and several free buildings were used for a hospital.

In 1970, there was conference of teachers of tavrish province, where Konstantin Ushinsky took a part. In memory of this event gymnasium has its current name.

In 1991 the school became a gymnasium again. After that its curriculum was enriched with such subjects as the history of world art, foreign literature, logic. From the first class pupils have a choice to study either English, French, or German; they also study Ukrainian language. From the 5 class a second foreign language is introduced.

A museum was opened in the gymnasium in 1968 and awarded an exemplary status in 2004.

Now school is situated in two buildings: an old one, that was build in later 30 years of XIX century, and the new one.

Gymnasium has a so-called first-level school (start education), general school of second level and gymnasium school, which are attended by about 800 pupils (5-11 classes) of its 1187 pupils.

Notable Alumni

*Igor Kurchatov, physicist; leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project; recipient of the Order of Lenin; member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
*Ivan Aivazovsky, famous Russian painter
*Nikolay Arendt, doctor of medicine; founder of the Russian aeronautics theory and designer of the first glider
*İsmail Gasprinskiy, Crimean intellectual, educator, publisher and politician
*Henry Graftio, engineer; constructor of the first trams lines in Saint Petersburg; constructor of hydroelectric power stations (Volhovskaya and Nizhne-Svirskaya)
*Sergey Karjakin, the youngest chess grandmaster in history
*Adolf Ioffe, Soviet diplomat
*Evgeny Wolf, doctor of biology, traveller, professor of Tauricus National University
*Nikolay Derzhavin, philologist, member of Russian Academy of Sciences
*Petr Lukirsky, physicist, member of Russian Academy of Sciences
*Alexander Mikhailov, hero of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Order of Lenin for bravery
*Gavriil Tikhov, astronomer, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
*Nikolay Papaleksy, physicist, member of Russian Academy of Sciences
*Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky, historian, member of Russian Academy of Sciences
*Mikhail Chulaki, composer, director of the Bolshoi theatre
*Alexander Spendiarov, composer and conductor

Notable Teachers

*Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist, creator of the periodic table of elements
*Ilya Derkachev, pedagogue and writer, author of the first Ukrainian language textbook and ABC book
*Ilya Kazas, Crimean educator and poet
*Aleksey Markevich, historian, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
*Mitrofan Kolosov, philologist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences