Another question about Russian schools

[Ksenia Kologrieva]

Dear Jeanmarie,

There is no exact date, unfortunately. It became an official holiday
(Knowledge Day) in 1984 but it had been the first day of school for ages,
before Peter the Great, since the first schools started their existence.
The first schools were associated with churches and they all started
working on the first day of the year which was September 1 then (since 400
BC until Peter the Great).

Here is a good history of that -
http://www.pochemuka.ru/2010/07/pochemu-den-znanij-otmechaetsya-1-sentyabrya/

*Best regards,*
*Ksenia Kologrieva*

Cloudberry Language School

Phone: 773-942-6262

www.cloudberrylanguageschool.com

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On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie <
j.rouhier at uky.edu> wrote:

>  Dear Seelangers--Does anyone know when the Sept. 1 official start date
> in Russian schools began?
>
> Best, Jeanmarie Rouhier
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