Today, September 1, the bell on first in life lesson rang for a record for 20 years of the number of Crimean first-graders. This was reported in the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Crimea. This year, 22.5 thousand first-graders lined up on the line in the Knowledge Day. This is approximately 15% more than last year.
For Simferopol schoolchildren, the first lesson was held under the name "Petersburg – a sister city".
Also today was the grand opening of the school, which was built since 1992. A new educational institution opened the doors for 840 schoolchildren. The school is located in the densely populated microdistrict Fontany of Simferopol (a place of compact residence of the Crimean Tatars). The construction was completed only after the reunification of the Crimea with Russia under the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the rehabilitation of the previously deported peoples of the peninsula.
The school was given the name of the Soviet intelligence officer Alima Abdenova, who during the Great Patriotic War in the fall of 1943 was abandoned to the Crimea under the occupation of the Third Reich, where, as part of the reconnaissance group, she fulfilled the tasks of the Soviet command and extracted information about the German and Romanian forces deployed on the Kerch Peninsula.
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Alima Abdenenova is a Soviet serviceman of the Crimean Tatar origin, a participant of the Great Patriotic War, a member of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Primorsky Army. Knight of the Order of the Red Banner (1944). Hero of the Russian Federation (2014, posthumously).