Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of Sunts NSU. Professors were banned from working in the Novosibirsk FMSh (sunts ngu). The best chemical laboratory - in the Siberian school
Having visited the SESC NSU, we learned the secrets of preparing for the Unified State Examination, looked at one of the best chemical laboratories and answered the question: why do students need ... a crocodile.
LAVRENTIAN TRADITIONS
FMSh, “fimyshat” ... An image immediately arises of the good-natured, but with cunning in the eyes of academician Lavrentiev, who cut a window in Siberia for talented children big science. He was a courageous and responsible person who created a physics and mathematics school without permission or allocated resources. The first admission to it took place in the summer of 1962, and on January 21, 1963, more than a hundred students from different parts of the USSR began to study at the "non-existent" school of the future, in which not teachers teach, but real scientists.
If you first look into the museum of the legendary PMS (and now the SESC NSU), then you will see ... a real crocodile (of course, not a living one, but its stuffed animal). This is the main talisman of the famous educational institution.
More than half a century ago, Mikhail Lavrentiev brought it from South America and presented it to the school with the words: “This animal can only move forward! So should you!” To this day, this is the main motto for all students, - Nikolai Ivanovich Yavorsky, director of the famous educational institution, begins his story.
The Laurentian traditions in PMS are, forgive Our Father. An important and unshakable principle of the existence of the school begins ... with the selection of children.
The first stage is the All-Siberian Olympiad. It is held in six subjects, and is considered a status one: its winners have the right to enter a university without a competition, - explains Nikolai Ivanovich. - Based on its results, we select children who have shown good results and invite them to our "Summer School". The first Summer School took place back in 1962, and since then every year 600-700 talented children study there.
Arriving at the "Summer School", children find themselves in a completely different educational space: here scientists of the SB RAS give lectures to them, there are also quite unusual for others educational institutions mugs, including robotics.
Children study during the day, and in the evening they have rest, sports competitions, concerts and original competitions, get acquainted with Akademgorodok and Novosibirsk. For schoolchildren who come from all over the country - for example, Yakutia, Far East, Buryatia is an invaluable experience. And even if they don't study at the PMS later, the received energy impulse, aimed at creating and discovering something new, will definitely come in handy for them, - Nikolai Ivanovich is sure.
"NOW YOU WILL DO BUSINESS!"
Another phrase of Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev, which became truly legendary in the PMS, was uttered more than 50 years ago at a meeting with physics and mathematics students. Then the legendary founder said to the children who came to study from all over the country:
Now you get to work!
In PMS, the emphasis was immediately placed on the natural science profile: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, but the children also study humanitarian subjects at a very high level:
We have the highest score on the Unified State Examination at school in the Russian language: yes, few hours are allocated for it, but the results are beyond all expectations, - says Nikolai Ivanovich.
By the way, about the Unified State Examination: the PMS indicators are the best in the region. But neither children nor teachers consider grades an end in themselves:
On the contrary, both teachers and children, because of the USE, have less time for Scientific research, and no one really likes it, - Nikolai Yavorsky explains.
But the students cope with the task with a bang. And all - thanks to the competent approach of teachers.
First of all, we have a separate special course for preparing for the Unified State Examination: they explain to students how to fill out the forms correctly, what rules exist during the exam, - lists Nikolai Ivanovich. - This is important for those guys who did not manage to remember all the nuances.
Another point: graduates are required to write trial exams.
Tasks are formed by the teachers themselves: they take them from the options of previous years, - Nikolai Yavorsky describes the technology.
And this approach gives its results: GPA on the Unified State Examination at school - 82, not a single educational institution in the region can boast of such marks!
THE BEST CHEMICAL LABORATORY IS IN THE SIBERIAN SCHOOL
And now about what the “fimyshats” (as the students call themselves) like to do. First of all, to conduct experiments in the laboratory. It is equipped with modern scientific instruments, which are rarely seen even in universities. And it is not just words:
In our laboratory, for example, there is a spectrometer (this is an optical device that allows you to study the intensity and energy of radiation - author's note), which allows you to quickly determine the substance from the radiation spectrum after computer processing - says Nikolay Yavorsky about the work of the laboratory.
Another important point: most of the classes and special courses (and there are, by the way, more than 160!!!) are taught by teachers who are candidates of sciences and professors, who work in institutes Russian Academy sciences, teach at NSU.
One of them is a graduate of the PMS, academician Pavel Vladimirovich Logachev, who is now the director of the Institute nuclear physics SO RAN.
Now imagine the level of teaching: he tells the children about his research, and students at the university learn some of this information only in the fourth year, - says Nikolai Ivanovich. Pavel Vladimirovich arranged a trip for a few “fymyshats” to the closed city of Sarov, to the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, where they were shown a museum with real atomic bombs, so delight of children in general there was no limit!
Another aspect: all the problem books for children are written by the teachers themselves, and there are no analogues of this in any other Siberian school!
You can study at PMS in three streams: three-year, two-year and one-year. These streams, of course, have a different educational program. So children and parents can choose any training program that is convenient for them.
In addition, we have an active project Open PMS - distance learning for all educational programs SUNC NGU. In PMS this resource is used for blended learning: it is intended, first of all, for children who have missed something or have not learned something, for those who are away at the Olympiad or tournament. Pupils can easily complete tasks and keep up with their studies, - explained Nikolai Yavorsky.
Agree, a convenient innovation that not even every university can boast of now.
Another important point is that PMS pays special attention to the health of students, so there is a department physical education where masters and candidates for masters of sports teach. There is also a gym where anyone can work out after class.
THE BOARDING HOUSE BECAME A SECOND HOUSE
And the PMS is a unique educational institution where children live in a boarding school. All conditions have been created there to make the children as comfortable as possible: two or three people live in rooms, washing machines are installed in the hostel so that children can wash clothes without any problems. In addition, each block has a bathroom and sink.
Children are fed six times a day, so parents should not worry about this, - Nikolai Ivanovich assured. – We tried to create all the conditions so that the children could focus on the main thing – study and research.
And this is the most important principle of PMS: children should strive not for high marks, but to gain knowledge and then successfully apply it. And where - in science or high-tech business, it is up to the students to decide!
SPECIFICALLY
"Fymyshata" is also in space!
Among the graduates of the SOSC NSU there are about 4 thousand candidates of science, more than 500 doctors of science, 7 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Russian Academy of Education, members of other academies. They work both in Russia and abroad. By the way, it was the PMS graduates who founded the first private Russian space flight company.
DOSSIER "KP"
The Specialized Physics and Mathematics School in Novosibirsk was established by a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on August 23, 1963, at the suggestion of Academician Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev. On January 21, 1963, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences A.A. Lyapunov.
For 53 years, 14,579 students graduated from the school: they received 103 gold medals and 398 silver medals.
BY THE WAY
Piano as a gift
In the FMS boarding school, another relic is carefully kept - the piano of the French pianist Vera Avgustovna Lothar-Shevchenko. He is over a hundred years old, on the lid - a two-headed imperial eagle.
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev assisted her in coming to Akademgorodok, and PMS students often came to visit her and helped with housework. And she organized concerts in gratitude, - says Nikolai Ivanovich.
After the death of Vera Avgustinovna, her piano, as she bequeathed, was transferred to the FMSh, where it is now.
Physics and Mathematics School them. M. A. Lavrentiev at Novosibirsk State University (SUNTS NSU) - educational institution Russian Federation, providing the last stage of secondary education (10th and 11th grades, and from the 2013-2014 academic year also 9th grades).
Encyclopedic YouTube
-
1 / 5
List of PMS directors (according to the year they took office): P. G. Semeryako (since 1963), A. S. Karabasova (since 1963), N. N. Bondarev (since 1964), N. F Lukanev (since 1965), E. I. Bichenkov (since 1965), N. M. Nogin (since 1967), L. N. Parshenkov (since 1967) and M. A. Mogilevsky (since 1970), A. F. Bogachev (since 1972), A. A. Nikitin (since 1987) and N. I. Yavorsky (since 2006).
PMS students annually take part in the All-Siberian School Olympiad. According to its results, they can enter the most prestigious universities in the country without passing the exam. In 2013, in the list of 25 strongest schools in Russia for the first time compiled by the Moscow Center for Continuing Mathematical Education in terms of the Unified State Examination, All-Russian and International Olympiads, the SESC NSU was ranked fifth (second among educational institutions outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg) .
Since 1986, there have been annual student exchanges between the Novosibirsk School of Physics and Mathematics and the Phillips Academy.
As of 2013 - the year of the fiftieth anniversary - 14,000 people graduated from the school, two-thirds of whom then studied at NSU. About 4 thousand graduates became candidates, and more than 500 - doctors of science. Two graduates were elected full members and seven - corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Summer school
Schoolchildren pronounce FMSh as "FyMySh", and teachers call them "fymyshats". According to the memoirs of the first teachers, one of the girls, Natasha Usova, painted flower pots and drew a mouse among the flowers on one of them. The guys called him fymyshonok, from that moment FMShata began to call themselves that. Summer school students - "eLShata". Also, “fymyshat” is often called physics and mathematics schoolchildren, “eLShat” - summer schoolchildren.
Inside the school, there is a system of night attendants (watching the lights out at 23:00 local time), morning attendants (after getting up at 7:00), orderlies, physical workers and cultural workers. Access to the dormitories, the educational building and the dining room of the FMS is carried out with special passes (tokens). Between the two dormitories of the FMS and educational building there is an underpass.
In the Summer School, a group of graduates (usually of the current year), the so-called "KomsOtryad" or "Komsa" for short, is responsible for leisure. Two educators are responsible for each class (mostly senior students or educators / teachers of the PMS) "Pedagogical Team". "Pedotryad" and "Komsotryad", including "Business Cards" concerts, in which they show numbers from NSU skits, their own numbers or old, proven numbers from the repertoire of the PMSh. Such concerts were attended by such famous personalities as
Director Nikolay Ivanovich Yavorsky
Type of boarding school
pupils Address Telephone Work 330-30-11
Website Training profile physical-mathematical and chemical-biological
Physics and Mathematics School them. M. A. Lavrentiev at NSU (SUNTS NSU) is an educational institution of the Russian Federation that provides the last stage of secondary education (10th and 11th grades).
Story
PMS students annually take part in the All-Siberian School Olympiad. According to its results, they can enter the most prestigious universities in the country without passing the exam.
Since 1986, there have been annual student exchanges between the Novosibirsk School of Physics and Mathematics and the Phillips Academy.
Summer school
Admission
FMS icon.
In addition to schoolchildren who have received an invitation to participate in the Summer School, there is an opportunity to enter without an invitation. At the very beginning of the Summer School, Olympiads (physics, mathematics, chemistry) are held, and everyone can take part in the Olympiads. In case of admission, they are equal in rights to the rest of the students.
At the end of the Summer School, examinations (physics, mathematics, chemistry, earlier also biology) and interviews (in the same disciplines) are held. According to the results control works select the best students.
dedication
Students of the two-year stream of the 10th grade and the one-year stream of the 11th grade are initiated on "Mikhailov's Day": the birthday of M. A. Lavrentiev and M. V. Lomonosov. The dedication takes place in the House of Scientists of the SB RAS. “Fimyshats” sing the school anthem, take an oath, and then the 10th grades of the two-year stream and the 11th grades of the one-year stream alternately rise to the stage where they undergo the initiation ceremony: they take a pinch of salt, kneel before the master, touch the standard and receive the FMS badge .
Rules
The PMS itself and the Summer School have strict rules regarding behavior. It is forbidden to drink alcohol, fight, steal, leave the hostel for the night without the permission of the class teacher. Such violations are subject to expulsion.
After 22:00 all students must stay in the hostel. On weekdays, the end is at 23:00, on holidays and during holidays, the end is half an hour later: at 23:30. Half an hour before lights out, the first bell rings, announcing that it's time to go to your rooms and get ready for bed. Blocks are not closed at night and the night teacher can control how schoolchildren follow the daily schedule.
The oath
I solemnly accept
I swear
Name FMShonka
Constantly learning
I swear
polish your mind
work to the limit
of their strength.
be merciless
I swear
to your weaknesses
and shortcomings
learn to live and work
in a collective,
always be faithful to our FMSH brotherhood.
Remember always and everywhere
I swear
about the honor of your school,
increase her authority
and glory
live so that the school can
be proud of me.
If I break this vow,
I swear
Let them stop respecting me
My comrades, teachers and scientistsHymn
We came from everywhere
In Akademgorodok.
The children led to this school
Lots of hard roads.But we went through all the obstacles
Through competitions, olympiads,
We had to work hard
In these austere lecture halls.Let our everyday life be difficult
It's not easy for us sometimes.
Integrals are harder
Life gives us with you.But disputes will be remembered for a long time,
Classes, lectures and corridors,
We will remember everything: how we lived here,
How we learned and how we became friends.The years go by quickly
They fly in succession
Where can we meet
Will it, my friend?But we firmly believe in these meetings
On earth and on another planet,
Somewhere under a blue star
We will firmly cross our arms with you.Schoolchildren pronounce FMSh as "FyMySh", and teachers call them "fymyshats". According to the memoirs of the first teachers, one of the girls, Natasha Usova, painted flower pots and drew a mouse among the flowers on one of them. The guys called him fymyshonok, from that moment FMShata began to call themselves that. Summer school students - "eLShata". Also, “fymyshat” is often called physics and mathematics schoolchildren, “eLShat” - summer schoolchildren.
Inside the school, there is a system of night (watching the lights out at 23:00 local time), morning duty (after getting up at 7:15), orderlies, physical workers and cultural workers. Access to the dormitories, the educational building and the dining room of the FMS is carried out with special passes (tokens). There is an underground passage between the two dormitories of the FMS and the academic building.
In the Summer School, a group of graduates (usually of the current year), the so-called "KomsOtryad" or "Komsa" for short, is responsible for leisure. Two educators are responsible for each class (mostly senior students or educators / teachers of the PMS) "Pedagogical Team". "Pedotryad" and "Komsotryad", including "Business Cards" concerts, in which they show numbers from NSU skits, their own numbers or old, proven numbers from the repertoire of the PMSh. At one time such famous personalities as Alexander Pushnoy, Ruslan Velikokhatny took part in such concerts.
Litigation against the school
SUNC NSU appealed against this decision in the regional court. In addition, it was challenged by the prosecutor Sovietsky district. September 18, Regional Court Novosibirsk region overturned the decision of the district court, referring to the fact that the activities of the SOSC NSU are regulated by a decree
Correspondence school at NSU. 50 years later
On October 23, 2015, the Correspondence School of the Special Educational and Scientific Center of NSU, the first correspondence school in physics and mathematics in the world, celebrated its 50th anniversary. More than a hundred people gathered at the celebration of the anniversary in Akademgorodok, among which were the founders of the school, graduates, teachers, as well as all those who different time participated in the activities of the correspondence school and contributed to its development.
Correspondence school at the Physics and Mathematics School of NSU became an important addition to the system of Olympiads and summer schools and gave inquisitive and gifted children from different, even the most remote, cities and towns a unique opportunity to assess their abilities and seriously improve the level of training in physics and mathematics, and later - Get into a prestigious university.
More than 20 people delivered congratulatory and parting speeches at the “Dialogue of Generations” conference. Former university rector N.S. Dikansky shared his thoughts on the direction in which the school should develop in modern conditions, Dean of the Faculty of Physics NSU A.E. Bondar told his story of studying at ZFMS, how the knowledge gained helped him enter the university and noted the undoubted benefits of distance education for those who are going to work at the forefront of science. And NSU professor A.S. entrance exam in mathematics: “Listening to how an applicant answers a question about the study of functions, I suddenly caught myself thinking that if I had to speak on this topic, I would have expounded in exactly the same way. After some time, I asked him: “maybe you studied at our Correspondence School?”, - and received an affirmative answer!
The beginning of this successful educational project is closely connected with the name of a well-known businessman, president of the F-consulting group of companies, Ph.D. Gennady Shmerelievich Fridman, at that time a sophomore student at the MMF NSU.
In his interview to SCIENCE First Hand magazine, he told a fascinating story about how several enterprising students in free time created a stable working school “by correspondence” in just two months, without the support of university officials.
About the further life of ZFMS - in the memoirs of Ph.D., professor of NSU Alexander Sergeevich Markovichev, who headed the mathematical department of this school for several decades. The editor of SCIENCE first-hand, Ph.D., also talks about his impressions. Sergei Ivanovich Prokopiev, who first studied at the ZFMS, and then was a teacher at the school.
Today, about two thousand children from 5th to 11th grades from twenty regions of Russia, from the CIS countries, Germany and the USA study at the ZSh SSC NSU, already in eight departments. But the essence educational services, invariably provided by ZSH since 1965, can be expressed literally in a “two words”: any schoolchild who speaks Russian can, upon request, receive methodological materials on subjects of interest to him and a set of thematic tasks, which change slightly from year to year, send your solutions and are guaranteed to receive a written review in response. Specialists from different departments of the school will evaluate the correctness of the decisions and the originality of the student's reasoning and give recommendations for his further education. All this contributes to the development of abilities and the selection of talented young people, many of whom later become students of NSU.
G. Sh. Fridman, Ph.D. PhD, President of the F-consulting group of companies:
“In August 1965, returning from the All-Russian Komsomol camp “Eaglet”, I went to the mechanics and mathematics department of Moscow State University, where I saw for the first time how assignments for the Correspondence Mathematical School were being prepared. And in our Novosibirsk Academgorodok at that time the Summer School (LFMS) was just taking place, and the guys and I immediately decided that we would also organize a correspondence school, but only (unlike Muscovites) physics and mathematics. And all the children from the Summer School who did not stay at the boarding school were announced that they had become our first “correspondence students”.
As a digression, I will say that in a sense we repeated the organizational experience set up three years earlier by the founding fathers of the first Summer School in which I participated. After 45 days of close communication, they obviously felt sad to leave us, and they decided to create something permanent. After the exams, some of us were admitted to the year-round physical and mathematical school (PMS), although at that time the very implementation of this idea, including funding, was a big question...
The first official document, which reflected the existence of the Correspondence School, appeared only after 6-7 years. Ironically, it was an order from the university: “For the collapse of the work of the ZFMS, fire: G. Sh. Fridman ...”, followed by a list of the names of the organizersNevertheless, the FMS opened in January at 3, Detsky proezd (this building was built for other purposes, but it was used as our boarding school for several months). And for the first six months it was an absolutely illegal educational institution, maintained by M.A. Lavrentiev, who was not afraid of anything when he acted in the name of an idea. Initially, 120 people were admitted to the school, of which 93 graduated. And only in August 1963, finally, a resolution of the Council of Ministers on boarding schools was issued, and similar schools began to be organized in Moscow, Leningrad, Kyiv and other cities.
So the PMS became another pioneer work of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences. Thanks to her, our NSU has become a truly all-Union university - we have students even from Ukraine and Moldova. There were two recruitment formats for PMS, including those based on the results of correspondence Olympiads. It was possible to come from Moscow, from Leningrad, from anywhere. Interviews were conducted with the arriving schoolchildren, and not all of them managed to pass the competition, most of them left back. Those who were admitted to the FMS were paid post factum travel expenses.
“If Baron X., who was robbed by Robin Hood, lost a third of his wealth, and Pinocchio stole two-fifths of the total number of soldos that Barmaley had, then count which of them stole more” - from tasks ZFMShMany NSU students almost from the very beginning of their studies began to participate in the organization of regional rounds of the Olympiad in the “zone of influence” of NSU: from the Urals and Central Asia to the eastern borders of the USSR. In 1965, I was a first-year student, and I was already appointed head of the brigade of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences for holding an Olympiad in mathematics, physics and chemistry in the Tyumen region. It was easy for a first-year student to become an ordinary member of the brigade, but to get the mandate of a brigade leader, in whose team there were two candidates of sciences, including famous mathematician L. V. Baev - it was “cool”! Such was the truly heroic youth of Akademgorodok.
Our team included: mathematicians Sergei Treskov and Yuri Mikheev, physicists Oksana Budneva, Misha Perelroizen and Senya Eidelman (I had the honor to teach him at summer school when he himself was already admitted to the first year of the university; now, among other things, he is the head of the Department of Physics elementary particles NGU). Eidelman and Perelroizen were then first-year students, Oksana was a third-year student, and Treskov, Mikheev, and I moved on to the second year. It was this company that created the Correspondence School.
…We Need More Talented People“We are implementing an educational pyramid scheme: Correspondence school is the foundation for PMS, and that, in turn, is the foundation for NSU, supplying us with its best graduates. But last years it became much more difficult for us to recruit guys to the university. Firstly, there are much fewer children to be born, another problem is the coverage of regions. We have created several regional universities, now our graduates are in charge there, they have begun to compete with us and pull off part of the educational contingent for themselves. About 2,000 children study at our ZFMS, which is very little. For comparison: in ZFTSh at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (where there is no boarding school) - more than five thousand.
But now there is a tremendous opportunity to solve all these problems: for distance learning it is necessary to use the Internet, Skype, and other means of communication as much as possible. When I was the rector, 15 years ago we made a special class distance learning, which provides students with interactive feedback from the teacher. And such a system in PMS should be implemented as soon as possible. Because we need more talented people."We ourselves composed tasks for the mailing list and, according to reviews, did a good job with it. Then we found among the freshmen those who began to check the work done, the next year these students grew into foremen. In turn, they immediately began to look for teachers among the graduates of the PMS, and they, together with those who “passed” a year or two in the correspondence school, became, after appropriate training, teachers of the Summer School. This is how the principle of succession has been formed in our country.
It should be noted that the Correspondence School for many years rested solely on our enthusiasm. We ourselves, without any support from the leaders of the university, organized the printing of assignments and their distribution. The first official document, which reflected the existence of the Correspondence School, appeared only after 6-7 years. Ironically, it was an order from the university: “For the collapse of the work of the ZFMS, fire: G. Sh. Fridman ...”, and then the list of organizers' names continued.
...Recently, at a meeting of the International Academic Council of NSU, the rector said that "the university and the Academy of Sciences should have mutual interests." But it has always been so! Moreover, in our time, even we, successful students of the PMS, were issued passes to the Institute of Nuclear Physics, where we could start working and attend real scientific seminars. True, I myself then “spread” to mathematics, but my classmates Sasha Rubenchik, Zhenya Kuznetsov and Vasily Parkhomchuk remained there. As for Parkhomchuk, BINP Director G. I. Budker hired him even before he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics School (!), and in his fourth year he entrusted him to conduct his own experiment with the participation of a team of engineers. That is, NSU has always had its own style, and students and even schoolchildren from PMS spent considerable time at research institutes. And my first article came out when I was in my first year, and it was published not just anywhere, but in the “Reports of the Academy of Sciences”!
Students who are currently studying at our university should understand that they are studying at a unique university with unique traditions. However, not everyone understands this, and the prestige of NSU is declining. Our challenge now is to revive the university as an outstanding educational institution with a long, established reputation that we can and should build on.”
A. S. Markovichev, Ph.D. PhD, Professor, NSU:
“Akademgorodok, 1960s. – an extraordinary place, an extraordinary time and wonderful people!
In 1963, through the correspondence round of the II All-Siberian Physics and Mathematics Olympiad for schoolchildren, I got to the second Summer School, and through it - to the PMS. How we studied at PMS is a separate issue. I will only say that several “old men” (students of the first set) organized a Mathematical Society at the school, into which every little kid could join by passing the appropriate exam to one of its “founding fathers”, among whom were Gena Fridman, Seryozha Treskov and Georgy Karev. I passed such an exam to Gena Fridman and thus got to know him.
… I study Mathematics with my Grandson using ZFMS Materials
“My activity at the Correspondence School began in the autumn of 1966, when the curators of the ZFMS brought us, NSU students, the work of students, which had to be urgently checked. There were so many notebooks that I was terrified. In addition, we were warned that it was necessary to answer in reviews in such a way that students would not send complaints to the school with the words “we were not explained incomprehensibly”. And we got through it.
I remember when I was already the director of the PMS at NSU, the NFPK under the Government of the Russian Federation decided to financially support the best correspondence school. I had to spend a lot of time and effort to prove to officials that it is necessary to support not one, but several best schools. As a result, 30 correspondence schools were supported at the first stage, and 18 at the second. Ours, of course, was on this list.
I am still doing mathematics with my grandson based on the ZFMS materials”The atmosphere of creativity and intellectual freedom reigned in the school, everything was interesting for us, young people aged 14-18. We were lectured by such remarkable scientists as M. A. Lavrentiev, A. A. Lyapunov, G. I. Budker, S. T. Belyaev and others. everyone here is simply impossible. After graduating from school and getting to NSU, many of us were simply eager to share our knowledge with schoolchildren in the same way as these outstanding scientists shared their knowledge with us. It is not surprising that in 1965, immediately after completing the first year, I, along with several of my classmates, began to work as a teacher at the 4th Summer School, teaching mathematics to children who were only two years younger than me.
“I was sure that My Works are checked if not by the Professor, then by the Associate Professor…”
Elena Seraya
(from an interview with the magazine "SCIENCE first-hand")
“I studied at the correspondence school in genetics and biology at the FMS, which was organized by Anatoly Ovseevich Ruvinsky and Pavel Mikhailovich Borodin. I found out about the existence of such a school late, so I had to complete a two-year course in one year. There was a lot to make up for. The system is as follows: schoolchildren study, receive assignments and send their work to the university, we did not know anything about our teachers, but I was sure that if not a professor, then an associate professor checks my work ... When I entered the FEN, I was tracked down a month later Olya Gorokhova, third-year student; Turns out she was my teacher. Olya offered me to work with schoolchildren. So, as a first-year student, I became a teacher at a correspondence school. And when Olya graduated from the university, I took over her powers: I became the head teacher of the correspondence biological school.
The most fun part of this study was when Pavel Mikhailovich Borodin collected information on the genetics of cats. I arrived in Novosibirsk, at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics I met Anatoly Ovseevich, he gave me a map on which I had to put a dot indicating the specific frequency of a certain gene in the Kemerovo region.
In Kemerovo in 1980, cats did not run around the city, so we went to the outskirts, to the village at the Pionerskaya mine, where our classmate lived. In fact, this is a village where every private house has a cat. It was a great happiness that everyone there knew her friend, because this year they introduced a tax on cats and dogs. We collected information about cats, and people were scared, thinking that we were collecting money. We reassured them: “But we don’t ask for a name, a surname, or a number, you show us the cat and that’s it!” The list of mutations was 12 pieces. In general, it was a great circus! But we have collected good material - 130 cats. Then I counted the gene frequency, put it on a map and took it to Novosibirsk. These data were included in the book of Pavel Mikhailovich.In the same year, the Correspondence Physics and Mathematics School began its work, to which the same Gena Fridman had a hand. At that time, I already participated in checking assignments at this school, but my regular work there began later, already in the 1970s, when I was a graduate student and taught at the PMS myself. I was asked to do a new assignment on the topic “limits of sequences”; apparently, the experience turned out to be successful, since then I was entrusted with preparing three more tasks in mathematics. Three of these four tasks were used for several decades, until Yu. V. Mikheev and I redid them. At one time, I even oversaw all the teaching of mathematics at ZSH, and for almost a decade I prepared introductory mathematics assignments, the greatest value of which was in the detailed solutions that students received along with a review of their work.
I note that no one forced us to engage in all this activity, we were just interested, we felt our own importance and worked practically on a voluntary basis, that is, almost for free. Incidentally, when the change of social formations in the early 1990s. one of our university leaders began to widely popularize the slogan “free labor is slave labor”, our so-called Sunday school quietly died out at NSU. Recently, we are to some extent beginning to return to that lifestyle, however, using foreign word"volunteer".
“… The Correspondence Teachers Checking Our Works Were Very Strict”
“I studied at the Physics and Mathematics School in Chelyabinsk, we had wonderful teachers of physics, mathematics and even literature. It would seem, what additionally could a correspondence school give me?
The fact is that in our school we taught physics not from a textbook (I never opened it at all in my school life), but by the method of “folklore”, that is, only by communicating with our teachers and with each other. It was a kind of sport: we offered each other tasks and solved them with enthusiasm. But although this created an atmosphere of creativity, there was a “full mess” in my head, or, better, “vinaigrette”. And once I saw an announcement in the Kvant magazine that enrollment was continuing at the ZFMS at NSU, I wrote an application there, they accepted me, and I studied there for two years, until 1972. This was my first experience of self-study. No one is above the soul, but no one can tell, you have to read and figure it out yourself. As a result of consistent reading of teaching materials and completing assignments, all my disparate knowledge was brought into the system. The correspondence teachers who checked our work were very strict: any violation of the logic of reasoning was immediately noted and the mark was lowered accordingly. Therefore, it was necessary to learn the art, which we now call “representation of results”, i.e., to state the solution of the problem in a coherent way, without missing anything. It helped me get into university.
I would like to note that the ability to learn independently is an absolutely essential quality of a scientific researcher. Science is developing rapidly, and no matter what you are taught at school and university, it will surely turn out that much of the knowledge gained is no longer good, because it is simply outdated. And in order to successfully engage in real science, it will be necessary to learn a lot anew. And in order not to get confused by the independence that has suddenly become necessary, it is better to start training from a young age. The Correspondence School helped me a lot with this.”As for the ZFMS, having changed, having gone through both good and bad times, it has become one of the best domestic correspondence schools. Stably working, it is very necessary for both the Special Educational and Scientific Center of NSU and for Novosibirsk University, and most importantly - talented guys who really strive for knowledge.
S. I. Prokopiev, Ph.D. D., leading editor of the journal "SCIENCE First Hand":
“My acquaintance with the Correspondence School at Novosibirsk State University began in the spring of 1979 in the city of Kurgan, when at the station young technicians, where we went with friends, we were shown the ZFMS brochure. It must be said that although some information about this school came across in newspaper publications of that time, its full contact details were usually not available. And even in the district department of education, they could not tell anything specific about this “secret” school.
Without thinking twice, I wrote an application with a request to be admitted to the 8th grade of the Correspondence School for all three departments (mathematical, physical, chemical) that were there at that time. After a couple of weeks, the school methodologist replied that there was only one department to choose from, and I named mathematics. This choice was dictated by the fact that by that time I had already read and mastered all the books on mathematics that were accessible and understandable for a schoolchild.
The days when I received a review of the work done and the next task were holidays for me. Firstly, my correspondence teacher was not stingy to write detailed comments in case some problem was solved incorrectly or incompletely. Secondly, it was nice to study the beautifully compiled methodological materials that preceded each next set of tasks.
In the same year, having successfully performed at the regional Olympiad for schoolchildren, based on the results of the interview, I got into the Summer School of Physics and Mathematics, and then was enrolled in the PMS.
“If it weren’t for ZFMS, my life would be gray and uninteresting”
“I studied at a Novosibirsk school with a specialization in history, where the mathematics program was very simple, I was not interested in the lessons. I did not even know that in our city there is a physics and mathematics school where you can enter and study there. And about NSU, they said that it was almost impossible to enter there.
My mother told me about the correspondence school. We had a “collective student” group, where the teacher discussed with the children the educational material of the mathematical department sent from ZFMS, but I did not go to this circle and solved problems on my own. At first, I studied at this correspondence school, and based on the results of the second year, I was invited to the Summer PMS, and only then did I find out that there was such a special education center at NSU where I could study full-time. Two years of study at the SOSC gave me a powerful preparation and helped me to overcome all the exams, so now I am studying at the NSU Mechanics and Mathematics. And if it weren’t for ZFMS, my life today would probably be gray and uninteresting.”My next meeting with ZFMS took place when I was already in my third year of Feng NSU. It turned out that the school was not allocated funding to check the work of correspondence students, so there was a chronic shortage of professional teachers, and this type of activity puzzled students of specialized faculties of the university within the framework of the so-called “Komsomol assignments”. During the year I checked the work of 20 eighth grade students. The tasks of the chemistry department were clearly formulated, and it was not difficult for a good student to solve them and evaluate how correct the students' decisions were. Remembering my studies at the Correspondence School, I tried to treat the correspondence with my wards with the same attention and responsibility. This activity, which I was engaged in until the end of the university, became a good pedagogical practice for me.
Working after graduation at the Institute of Catalysis, I met the organizer and leader of the Sunday School of Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry and Biology at NSU, Nina Evgenievna Bogdanchikova. She immediately suggested that I start communicating “live” with inquisitive guys who came to the university on Sundays from different places, including such remote places as Cherepanovo and Moshkovo. At school they tried to get knowledge beyond school curriculum that could help them prepare for college. There were over forty people in the class! Liberty was almost unlimited, and we developed the lecture programs ourselves. As a basis, I took the training manuals of the Correspondence School, supplementing them with my own tasks on topics that many students traditionally experience difficulties in solving.
As for the ZFMS, having changed, having gone through both good and bad times, it has become one of the best domestic correspondence schools. Stably working, it is very necessary for both the Special Educational and Scientific Center of Novosibirsk State University, and Novosibirsk University itself, and most importantly, for talented guys who really strive for knowledgeLater, I began to participate in the organization of the All-Union Olympiads for schoolchildren, and I had to leave Sunday School, replaced by younger ones - graduates and students of NSU. However, for Olympiads of any level, I always took brochures of the Correspondence School with me to tell the visiting children and teachers about this wonderful school - after all, for many it was the only chance to get first-hand information.
Many sibmums whose children study or are preparing to enter the SESC NSU are concerned about the information that has appeared in the media about the termination of state funding for this educational institution. P press service of Novosibirsk state university explains the situation.
Novosibirsk State University, scientists and businessmen provide financial support to the SESC NSU. Due to budget cuts, the school is forced to raise fees for boarding, but plans to partially compensate for the cost to children from low-income families, as well as to keep free special courses for schoolchildren in Novosibirsk.
Last week, Moscow hosted a meeting of directors of the Specialized educational and scientific centers(SUNTS), which was attended by the director of the SUNTS NSU Nikolai Yavorsky. The directors discussed the situation that has developed in physics and mathematics schools after the RF Ministry of Finance cut the budgetary funding of the STSC.
Now there are four SSCs in Russia - at Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, UrFU (Yekaterinburg) and NSU. For full work in the next academic year each SCSC needs about 200 million rubles, says Nikolai Yavorsky. The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation allocated only 35 million rubles - this amount was compiled according to the standards for ordinary high school. This is less than 20% of the costs of Specialized Educational and Scientific Centers of leading universities, which employ highly qualified teaching staff, create original educational programs, have a large number of additional special courses and workshops, and, most importantly, a boarding school for gifted students.
” The NSU SESC managed to recover some of the missing funds, thanks to the financial support of NSU - the university allocated 65 million rubles to the school for educational activities.
The school must earn at least another 70 million rubles on its own in order to ensure the boarding maintenance of students. In connection with these, the NSU SCSC is forced to increase the parental fee for boarding maintenance from 108 to 133 thousand rubles.
The same situation, according to Nikolai Yavorsky, has developed in the SUNC of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. The most significant increase in fees affected the SUNC UrFU and the Academic Gymnasium of St. Petersburg State University.
“Of course, we think about those guys who have a difficult financial situation in the family. We plan to compensate part of the parental fees to such students to the extent that we can. The minimum payment will be 42 thousand rubles - this amount is actually equal to the cost of food per child, ”says Nikolai Yavorsky.
For students who enrolled at the SESC NSU in previous years, the increase in boarding fees will be in the amount of inflation, i.e. 4%. The FMShans charitable foundation, established three years ago by graduates of the SSC with the support of NSU Rector Mikhail Fedoruk, will also continue to support schoolchildren.
In addition, the formation of endowment funds for the development of the NSU SESC is underway. To start its work until November 6, 2017, it is necessary to collect 3 million rubles. Scientists and businessmen have already made their contribution to the creation of target capital, many of them are graduates of the SASC. Anyone can transfer funds for target capital.
In the new academic year, about 130 special courses will continue to work at the SESC NSU, which can be attended by students of any school in Novosibirsk and not only in the city. As before, these special courses will be free. In the coming academic year, the Open PMS project is expanding, allowing distance learning anywhere in the country and the world where there is Internet access. Here, those who for some reason did not enter the physics and mathematics school will be able to get an education in all educational programs of the Special Educational and Scientific Center of NSU. In addition, the Correspondence School operates at the SESC NSU, where you can get a good additional education in many subjects from an earlier age.
“I hope that we will understand that physics and mathematics schools need to be preserved. The whole world needs to take care of it. If we follow the path that the Ministry of Finance has determined for us, they will be destroyed,” said Nikolai Yavorsky.
Reference: The specialized physics and mathematics school in Novosibirsk opened in 1963. The purpose of creating the school is to search for talented children, create conditions for the development of the creative abilities of schoolchildren, their independence, interest in scientific activity. Now there are 500 students in the SESC NSU, they are taught by more than 260 highly qualified teachers (more than 40% with degree), including academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For 54 years, about 15 thousand people graduated from the school, every fourth - a candidate of science, about 500 doctors of science. Among the graduates of the SOSC NSU are well-known scientists, members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, successful businessmen and entrepreneurs, heads of large industries and high-tech companies.
