Commercial School
a trading school, a professorship that existed in Chelsea from 1909 to 1919. The school was established on the initiative of the famous entrepreneur and philanthropist V. S., a philanthropist. K. Pokrovskiy (see Pokrovskie), who submitted the idea of creating an educational institution – “the brainchild of a trade and industrial class”, would “serve his interests and needs, preparing personnel for the huge trade and industrial business of the Eastern Urals and Western Siberia”.
The charter of the new academic institution was approved by the Minister of Trade and Industry I.P. Shipov on September 11. 1908. In the same year, the T.S. Board received “all the donations made through the exchange committee” for the establishment of the school;
it allocated a grant and a mountain Duma. M.I. Morozov’s house was rented to house the school (at the corner of modern Pushkin Street and K. Marx Street). Classes began in the autumn of 1909. The Shk.
Go to the site and find out more https://argoprep.com/blog/what-is-a-trade-school/ . Statute determined that “the aim of the Chelyabinsk trade school was to give students commercial education, to prepare them for commercial activities and for service in commercial industrial institutions”.
It was supposed that the whole course of study would be 4 years old (1 prepare. and 3 autumn classes), but due to the low level of preparation of boys who entered the junior class, the Academic Council decided to introduce 5 years of study (2 prepare. and 3 autumn classes) from 1911.
The following subjects were taught in the T.S.: Law of God, Russ, German ulcer. (with the beginning of the 1st World War, replaced by English), arithmetic, algebra, geometry, botany, zoology, human anatomy and physiology, physics, chemistry, geography, history, calligraphy, drawing; special subjects: accounting, commercial arithmetic and geography, correspondence in Russian and foreign languages. (in this case the school was not considered a secondary school).
The teacher of natural history, chemistry, commodity science, physics and inspector T. S. was VN August (he made reports on the work of the school for 1912/13 – 1914/15 academic years). The classes were held from 25 August to 1 June. The lesson lasted for 50 minutes. Boys aged 12-15 years were admitted to the school. In 1916 for the first timegirls were recruited.
The number of T.S. graduates was small. The first 3 graduates (1912, 1914, 1915) were only 29 people. However, the tendency to increase the number of students was obvious: in 1915, 141 people studied at school, in 1916 – 203, 14 of them were girls.
At school there was a library, a physical study, chemistry and goods laboratories, a pupil’s shop. The teachers of T.S. took care of the leisure of the pupils. Pupils made excursions in the Urals and surroundings of Chel.
In 1912, a pupil appeared in the school; his parent bought checkers, chess, lotto and other games for him. In the report on the action of the club among the pr. said: “At first, sometimes noticed by some students … …the inability to maintain the well-known order of the cultural community.
There were frequent tendencies – without malice to fight, to play an offensive joke on the smaller and weaker. But gradually… …the students changed noticeably… Usually time passed in games, dancing to music and without it, sometimes performed reciters or readers of their own works.
Little by little a very decent orchestra, which also gave the audience a great pleasure. Before the beginning of the 1st World War it was decided to build a new building for T.S. in the area of Asian Street, (now Yelkina Street). The project of the building, developed by Arch. A. A. Fedorov, was rejected because of the high cost (110 thousand rubles). The project of the Acad. of Architecture E. F. Virrikh, which required half the cost (there remained unrealized. because of the beginning of the war, then rev rev rev). With the establishment of Soviet power T. S. ceased to exist (1919).