Penza schoolchildren joined the action “Teachers of Victory”

The Penza region supported the all-Russian action “Teachers of Victory”, which takes place from 2 to 13 November. Schools in Penza, Kuznetsk and Upper Lomov have already held thematic lessons about teachers who taught children during the Great Patriotic War.

The initiator of the project is the All-Russian Trade Union of Education, support was provided by the Ministry of Education, the RGS and Rosmolodezh. Participants were more than 5 thousand high school students from Russia and about a thousand from abroad. The action is based on two real stories. The first is about Nikolai Küng, who created an underground school in Buchenwald. The second is about the geographers of besieged Leningrad, who hand-drawn the “Victory Map” for the attack on Berlin.

Lessons are given by young teachers. Schoolchildren work with archival documents and materials of the Nuremberg trial, trying on the roles of investigators and prosecutors. In the Penza region, classes were held by members of the Council of Young Teachers. On November 6, Elena Malysheva held a lesson in Kuznetsk school No. 17 named after Gagarin. On November 12, Artem Moksyakov came to the tenth-graders of Upper Lomov, and Julia Loskutova held a lesson in Penza school No. 12.

The organizers believe that such meetings help young people understand the value of peace and preserve the bond of generations.