Nikolai Patrushev and Rustam Minnikhanov have visited the Cadet Boarding School in Tetyushi

On 1 June Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is on a working trip to the Tetyushi municipality of the republic, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov and other officials visited the Cadet Boarding School opened in Tetyushi in 2003.

Currently the school has 129 cadets, including 18 girls, from different regions of Tatarstan and St.Petersburg, Ulyanovsk, Chuvashia and Marij El.

Greeting the cadets, Rustam Minnikhanov said that the republic attaches special attention to the development of the cadet movement. “We are so proud of you. Both the educational and pedagogical processes are following the way defined by the President of our country Vladimir Putin.  And the fact that the main part of the graduates choose higher military schools for their further education proves that the cadet school has well-organized systemic work”, he said.

Nikolai Patrushev gave a high assessment to conditions created for cadets. “You will be proud of the education you have received here. Your teachers have given you a lot but your future depends on yourselves”, he said.

Minnikhanov and Patrushev also walked round classrooms, the gym and the Cadet Hall of fame.

Besides the general education curriculum, the cadets also have elementary military training and paramilitary sports and every year the graduates of the school are enrolled in the higher educational institutions of the Russian Defense Ministry and the FSS.