Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev Academic Gymnasium at Saint Petersburg State University () also known as the 45th Physics Mathematics School () is a selective secondary boarding school at the

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established in 1963 in what was then the Soviet Union, now Russia. In 2015 it was named after

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n mathematician

Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev ( rus, Дми́трий Константи́нович Фадде́ев, , ˈdmʲitrʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ fɐˈdʲe(j)ɪf; 30 June 1907 – 20 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician. Biography Dmitry w ...

, who was one of the founders of the school.

History

Boarding School No 45

The boarding school with physics-mathematics and chemistry-biology specialization was organized by the decree of

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No 905 (23 August 1963) "On organization of specialized boarding schools with the physics-mathematics and chemistry-biology profiles" The decree was initiated by a letter signed by a few Soviet politicians and scientists including the Minister for the Defense Industry Sergei Alekseevich Zverev, president of the

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, Soviet mathematician

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and Soviet physicist

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. Works on establishing of a physics-mathematics boarding school at Leningrad State University started before signing of the Council of Ministers Decree in 1963 spring. 120 students were recruited and sent to four classes. The plans were to use Boarding School No 7 on

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. After signing of the decree the plans were expanded and included establishing of an independent boarding school. The champions for organization of the new school was mathematician at the time the leader of

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organization of the Leningrad State University, and the rector of the University, mathematician

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The new boarding school used building of a disestablished boarding school No 45 of Zhdanovsky District, Leningrad. The office supplies inherited from that school determined the unofficial name of the new school: Physics-Mathematics School No 45 or PhMSh 45. The entrance exams to the new school were organized in the fall 1963. 183 gifted children of

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and

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regions were admitted into the 9th and 10th grades of the school. The first classes were held on 16 October 1963, that day is celebrated as the birthday of the school.

Academic Gymnasium

On 25 January 1991 the school was renamed Academic Gymnasium and included as a department of Saint Petersburg State University. On 8 March 2015 the school was named after D. K. Faddeev. According to the 2017 rating by Russian Department of Education "Top 500 School" the school is 12th in Russia and second in Saint Petersburg (after

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) At the present time there are about 500 pupils are studying in the school.

References

External links

Official site
{{Coord missing, Russia Schools in Saint Petersburg 1963 establishments in the Soviet Union