Overview

• At an Oct. 1 ceremony in Moscow, the prime minister honored research teams, schools and individual educators with state prizes and letters of gratitude.
• Recognized projects included curricula on innovative methods for emergency neurosurgery and a model for hospital-based schooling for children undergoing long-term treatment.
• Awards also covered a supplementary program to develop students’ mathematical potential and an advanced biology textbook set for grades 10–11.
• Individual and school-based honorees included Chechen language textbook authors Musa Ovkhadov and Raisa Abdulkadyrova, the author team of Moscow School No. 109, teacher Anna Bosova, staff of Lyceum Vtoraya shkola, two employees of Moscow Pedagogical State University, and State Duma member Alexander Rumyantsev.
• Government letters of gratitude were issued to five educators from schools in Altai Krai, Smidovich in the Jewish Autonomous Region, St. Petersburg’s Lyceum No. 369, Ilovaisk in Donetsk, and Zabaykalsky Krai.