Bashkortostan builds math lyceum-boarding school named after Bashir Rameev

Bashkortostan is building the Republican Mathematics Lyceum-Boarding School named after Bashir Rameev, a school for gifted children in mathematics, computer science and physics. Aybulat Khazhin, chairman of the State Assembly's profile committee, told Bashinform that funds for construction came from Russia's Ministry of Education and that no comparable institution exists elsewhere in Russia.

Khazhin said admission will depend only on talent. An independent commission will hold creative and intellectual tests, and he said no corruption schemes or connections will influence the results. Students will live and study on one campus. He said the team studied top schools across Russia and Uzbekistan's presidential schools before designing the project.

Students will have two-person rooms with private bathrooms, along with a canteen, library, conference hall, sports halls, climbing wall, recording studio and amphitheatre. Teachers will be selected through a competition, and coaches of national Olympiad teams are expected to join. The project was initiated by Bashkortostan head Radiy Khabirov, who keeps it under personal control.