Former Deputy Minister of Education headed the project “Spherum”
The service for communication between teachers and schoolchildren was headed by Irina Shvartsman. On September 8, she resigned as Deputy Minister of Education
Former Deputy Minister of Education Irina Shvartsman headed the educational project “Spherum”, told RBC a source familiar with personnel appointments. The press service of “Spherum” confirmed RBC appointment Schwartzman.
Irina Shvartsman has been appointed Director of Educational Service Sferum. In this position, Irina will continue to develop Sferum as a platform with useful services for training, verified content and projects for education, the press service of the project told RBC.
On September 8, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the release of Shvartsman from the post of Deputy Minister “at her request.” As Deputy Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov, she worked since 2024, first supervising the secondary vocational education unit, then working with the regions.
Prior to her appointment as Deputy Minister, Shvartsman headed the Ministry’s Infrastructure Development Department and was Deputy Prime Minister of Kalmykia.
The educational platform “Spherum” was created as an analogue of the American video conferencing service Zoom. The development of an analogue of Zoom was ordered by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communications and Rostelecom. “This system is secure, so no hacking or hacking of this system is possible. Everything is reliably protected, as well as video surveillance at the exam, said Sergey Kravtsov in 2020.
In 2023, 300,000 people used the unified communication platform daily, said Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev. He said that to communicate with students and their parents, you need to use the Russian platform, for personal communication you can use any messengers.
In the autumn of 2025, the service “Spherum” was transferred from the VK messenger to “Max”. It is integrated with electronic journals and diaries.
