Overview

• Sergey Mironov proposed setting preschool educators’ salaries at no less than 100,000 rubles to align with schoolteachers’ pay.
• He cited presidential May directives as the basis for the figure and presented it as a benchmark rather than an enacted policy.
• Vice Premier Dmitry Chernyshenko and Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov issued holiday messages praising preschool educators’ role in nurturing children’s interest in learning.
• Officials highlighted the federal project Pedagogi i nastavniki as the vehicle for elevating professional status and improving working conditions, emphasizing needed resources and methodological materials.
• Russia’s preschool system includes over 637,000 educators, more than 32,000 standalone kindergartens, and upward of 44,000 organizations offering preschool programs.