In Irkutsk Region, the Big Break school construction program will start in 2015, and a plan for new schools has been set through 2018. Sergey Eroshchenko also spoke of a major expansion of kindergartens, 18 thousand places were created in 2014, and in 2015 at least 10 new preschools are planned. He also noted support for private kindergartens and a course toward fully eliminating preschool waiting lists.

On Thursday, February 12, Governor of the Irkutsk Region Sergey Eroshchenko delivered his annual address on the state of affairs in the region in 2014 and the main directions of the regional state policy for 2015. He announced that the “Big Break” school construction program will launch in the Irkutsk Region in 2015. 35 preschool institutions were built in Priangarye in 2014 pursuant to the order of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to eliminate waiting lists for kindergartens.
During the address, the Governor emphasized:
- “This is 17 times more than was built before. Construction has been launched throughout the region, from small villages to large cities in more than 30 settlements of the region.” A plan for the construction of general education schools through 2018 has now been drawn up. In accordance with the plan, schools will be built in Kachug, Novochunka, Ust-Uda, and Zalary in 2015.
As part of his annual address, Sergey Eroshchenko highlighted a clearly expressed trend of growth in the creation of new places in the preschool education sector: in 2012, 8,000 places became available in kindergartens, in 2013 the total number of places amounted to almost 10,000, and in 2014 the number of places had already reached 18,000. Large-scale work was carried out to repair and reconstruct old buildings, which in total made it possible to provide more than 7,200 places. In 2014, 1.8 billion rubles were allocated to provide children with places in preschool institutions. In 2015, at least 10 new kindergartens will be built, and major and routine repairs of kindergartens will continue; 438 million rubles have been allocated for this in the regional budget.
In addition, as part of the address, the Governor said.
– “Non-state preschool education institutions will receive support from the regional budget. One million rubles is allocated for grant payments. Now we must completely eliminate the waiting list for kindergartens and begin the program of building new schools.”
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk administration.