A small provincial urban settlement, in connection with the construction of Belarusian NPP, acquired the status of a city, grew by three new microdistricts and almost doubled to 15 thousand people. Today it is one of the youngest cities in the country. Two new schools have been built in Ostrovets. The third is under construction. This year, 238 school students sat at their desks in the first grades of Ostrovets. Of these, 98 are children of Belarusian NPP employees. The nuclear power plant is developing, growing with young specialists, and along with it, Ostrovets city is developing and getting younger.
The third school is the newest in Ostrovets. This year it turned 5 and more than 620 boys and girls, whose parents work at Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, study there. This is 67% of the total number of school students. That is, out of every three schoolchildren, two are children of NPP employees.
This school year, 112 children entered the first grades of the school. Of these, 54 are children of Belarusian NPP employees.
Seventy percent of senior school students plan to connect their lives with nuclear energy in the future. The school has opened an "Atomic Class" in which children study the subjects necessary for admission to universities with a nuclear energy profile.
Therefore, the invitation of the head of Belarusian NPP to the ceremonial assembly at School No. 3 was not accidental.
Speaking at the event, Sergei Bobovich congratulated the teachers, students and their parents on the beginning of the new school year, and also expressed gratitude to the school teachers for the upbringing and education of the children of Belarusian NPP employees, which enables the personnel of the nuclear power plant to calmly carry out their production duties for the generation and distribution of electricity to the unified energy system of the country.
The general director wished the students of the youngest school in Ostrovets new achievements in their educational activities and, especially, in the study of physics, which is the main academic discipline in the training of specialists for nuclear energy.
During the assembly, Sergei Bobovich and the director of school No. 3, Lyudmila Sosnovskaya, signed a cooperation agreement between secondary school No. 3 and Belarusian NPP. The school was also given sports equipment, which the employees of the nuclear power plant purchased at their own expense.
