Letovo School

Education for gifted and motivated students aged 12 to 17 from all over Russia.

Letovo School is open to all gifted and motivated students regardless of their financial situation.

About Letovo School at Bloomberg

Vladimir Moshkovich: "Education is the key driver in the modern world and I want Russia to be competitive. This is for soul and country."

Mikhail Mokrinskiy

Principal

Our main goal is to give motivated children access to the highest levels of academic knowledge, opportunities for all-round development and admission to top universities in Russia and abroad. I don’t like the idea of competing with neighbouring schools or the school’s ranking, district-wise. You should learn from your neighbours, what you should fight for is your own dream

Madlena Shaginyan

Head of Academics

What makes the education at Letovo unique is the fact that we develop skills. You may well forget the date of the Mongol invasion, but you will most definitely learn how to work with historical and critical sources of information. And that is what we call ‘skills for life’, which are vital for every person living in the 21st century

Larisa Korabelshikova

IB Coordinator

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is one of the few international programmes whose diploma is accepted by most universities throughout the world. Its educational model is built on the principles of humanistic psychology and is aimed at the holistic development of personality. I am a big proponent of this approach and I see the need to popularize this programme

Dmitry Schnoll’

Mathematics Teacher

Doing mathematics is the experience of deriving enjoyment from overcoming a challenge. What happens during solving a mathematics problem is an important existential experience

Alexey Belov

Physics Teacher

Education (‘obrazovaniye’ in Russian) is derived from the word image (‘obraz’ in Russian), so it is of utmost importance for every teacher to develop and not lose the ability to wonder at the new

Grigoriy Saminskiy

Geography Teacher

The focus of geography is the interactions between humans. The variety of material studied allows students to draw on their own personal experiences, implement team projects and develop systematic thought processes. The main art of the teacher is to create a distinct image of the world and its parts within a student’s mind as well as teach students how to broaden and reconsider this image without assistance’

Alina Korbut

Biology Teacher

We learn to build interdisciplinary connections. Thanks to them, our students will be able to understand that disciplinary boundaries are, in fact, relative, and that everything in nature is interconnected and holistic. The same can be said about human activity which is the subject matter in humanities and social sciences. Subject boundaries exist only in our mind. Nature obeys general laws and each subject just provides a particular perspective and a set of typical or standard ways to observe this process

Konstantin Levushkin

History Teacher

Students are more interested in looking at this or that event from an unusual perspective, through microhistory or everyday life. For instance, 1860-1870s terrorists can be analysed from the point of view of communication’

Vladimir Gurovits

Computer science teacher

Information Technology at school is a tool which gives students a new level of understanding while mastering other subjects. Key achievements in modern life are connected with this tool, among which are computational linguistics, bioinformatics, big data in elementary particle physics and implementing artificial intelligence in medicine

Frances Newbery

Physics teacher

Physics is the key to understanding the world around us. It is more than just a collection of formulas, it is a set of tools we can use to explore, to create, it is an aspiration to discover the unknown.

Irina Lyamsheva

English teacher

The combination of two educational models – those of the Russian and International Baccalaureate – opens up great possibilities for developing students’ abilities and talents, enables their fulfilment, to find themselves and simply their happiness

Vasiliy Gorbachev

English Teacher

Language is a tool for cognition alongside the sense organs, emotions and mind. New language is a new instrument. The greater number of tools like these, the greater the knowledge

Our team

Key advantages of Letovo School

Unique study model

Each student chooses an individual educational trajectory to study disciplines at different paces, in different logical order, at various levels (from standard to advanced), independently or in class

Entry into best higher education institutions in Russia and the world

Preparation for the Russian State Exam, IB and academic competitions will be the focus, the moment students step over the threshold to embark on their studies at Letovo

Teams formed from the very best teachers worldwide

Every teacher at Letovo has their unique history of academic success and training winners of academic competitions

Developing skills for life

Critical thinking, creativity, team work and communication are the skills that every student will acquire at Letovo

Modern campus

The school has an integrated space for studies and daily life with all the necessary facilities for research, creative work and sports and leisure

Subsidized tuition

The school has the largest scholarship fund in the Russian system of secondary education

Rich full-time programme

Rigorous academic curriculum needs to be balanced out with rich and fun extra-curricular life. Many clubs, studios and societies help our students to receive all-round development and reach personal fulfillment

The very best of Russian and foreign expertise

The school’s ethos is based on the traditions and expertise of the best schools in Russia with a profound study of Physics/Mathematics and the Humanities, key curriculum elements from Singapore, Great Britain, the USA and Australia

About our campus

Letovo autonomous community

Built on an area of 60 hectares, our campus is between the Salaryevo and Buninskaya Alleya metro stations. The campus includes the main school building, boarding houses, sports grounds, areas for recreation and extracurricular classes and accommodation for staff. The school building is the main hub where school life thrives.

From science labs to design studios, from rehearsal rooms and a library to a winter garden – the space aims to inspire interest in education and a willingness to learn. The boarding school is a comfortable and safe place where children feel at home. There are 10 houses for students on site. Up to 60 boys or girls of different ages live in each of house.

About our campus

Our Team

Mikhail Mokrinskiy

Madlena Shaginyan

Larisa Korabelshikova

Dmitry Schnoll’

Alexey Belov

Grigoriy Saminskiy

Alina Korbut

Konstantin Levushkin

Vladimir Gurovits

Frances Newbery

Irina Lyamsheva

Vasiliy Gorbachev

Key advantages of Letovo School

About our campus

Letovo autonomous community