In Akademgorodok, school 19 is being closed because of an emergency condition

School No. 19 will be closed from January 1, 2016 because of the foundations emergency condition, and 1.2 thousand students will be transferred to schools No. 77, 55 and 24, keeping their classes and teachers. The decision was made after inspections showed the building needs not just repair, but major reconstruction, which could take about two years. The article also explains how this will affect the school process and where new schools may appear in Akademgorodok in the future.

Due to the emergency condition of the foundation, School No. 19 will be closed from January 1, 2016. 1,200 schoolchildren will be transferred by classes, with their own teachers, to Schools Nos. 77, 55, and 24. Will this have a negative impact on the educational process?
The first inspection was carried out in 2010, and at that time unfavorable trends in the condition of the main building were recorded. The decision to close the school in the middle of the academic year, but not from September 1, is due to the fact that the conclusion on the inspection of the structures was received at the end of this autumn.
The chairman of the city administration’s committee on urban planning policy, Ivan Gotovsky, spoke about the specifics of resolving the issue of reconstructing School No. 19. — The school required closure, however, by the start of the school year they changed their minds about closing it and planned simply to carry out repairs. In this regard, some blocks of the school have already been deemed inoperable, and part of the blocks are limitedly operable, — Ivan Gotovsky explained.
It may take about 2 years to resolve this issue. Since the foundation there is unsafe, the entire structure is unsafe as well. Ahead lie the development of design and cost documentation and construction. To date, all social facilities have been visually inspected by specialists from the Irkutsk Municipal Institution “Capital Construction Department,” - Dmitry Berdnikov reported.
In general, in the Akademgorodok area, according to Ivan Gotovsky, the construction of additional schools is not planned in the next two years, but the city master plan has designated sites for two educational institutions - closer to the Angara River, near the sports and recreation complex and near the Soyuz microdistrict.