I was among the first students of this school, it was opened in 1979. I went to the sixth grade in it, before that I studied at Ryshkanovka. It was the first school in the Budesti microdistrict, as it was called at that time, the school number was the twelfth in the citywide numbering. The first principal was Larisa Viktorovna Bannikova, she was later replaced by Vasily Vasilyevich Andonov, and our class teacher was first Zinaida Grigoryevna Kuchuk, an English teacher, then Lyudmila Vasilyevna Domoradova, a history teacher. She was a strict lady, but fair, and even very sincere towards her pets, which manifested itself already in high school, once we even visited her house, if I remember correctly, she lived on Bubnovsky Street.
Larisa Viktorovna Bannikova taught Russian language and literature in our class. She was an intelligent teacher, taught her subject quite interestingly, and encouraged students to prepare additional materials on literature. And even after leaving the post of director, she remained a simple teacher at school for a year, apparently finishing her senior year. One day, a young man in a military uniform with sergeant's shoulder straps suddenly came to our class, approached her, hugged her and handed her a bouquet of flowers - it was her former student who had just returned from the army. You should have seen Larisa Viktorovna's face - there was no happier person at that moment, not only at school, but in all the Apartments with New Coinage!
Chemistry was taught by Lyudmila Georgievna Kiriyak, who later also became the director of the school, but already somewhere in the nineties. The physics was led by David Leibovich Sichuga, a true professional in his field, who previously worked at the Academy of Sciences of the MSSR, and perhaps the most vivid memories remained of him. His discipline in his lessons was ironclad, and he knew his subject like no one else. He easily replaced mathematics with us if the teacher, Zinaida Vasilyevna Pashkova, was ill. Sometimes it really seemed to me that he looked very similar to Landau, about whom he also told us a lot. In general, physics has been my favorite subject for several years.
The Moldovan language was taught to us first by Ivan Viktorovich Tomsha, then by Elena Fedorovna Roibu. Thanks to them, I still remember a number of poems in Moldovan, which I am happy to quote to my students who study Spanish with me.
Nina Vasilyevna Kirilenko, a student of Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, taught music and singing, she periodically went to see him in Moscow and then told us a lot about him and his students. She also worked on recording music for movies.
For some time, the school choir was led by Fyodor Nikolaevich Marin, known in musical circles as Theodor Marin, composer, artistic director of the Moldgosphilarmony, conductor of the Moldovan jazz Orchestra "Bucuria". I managed to learn from him at Ryshkanovka, where I mastered the basics of musical notation under his guidance, and in the choir he put me on the part of the second voices, which, as I now understand, was cool.
The school, by and large, was quite average, at times bandit-like, but the teachers were remembered as sincere and very good people, I would even say outstanding. This school began with them (and with us), this is its history...