Simbirsk Chuvash teacher's school


Simbirsk Chuvash teacher's school is the training center for the creative intelligentsia of the Chuvash and other peoples of the Volga region. Center founded educator of Chuvash people I. Y. Yakovlev, October 28, 1868 in Simbirsk, the administrative center of the homonymous province.

History

In 1868, Ivan Yakovlev schoolboy at his apartment in Simbirsk began to teach Chuvash children. In 1871, the Ministry of Education gives official status Simbirsk Chuvash school. After nine years, it is converted to a teacher-training college.
Great contribution to its formation and development have I. Ulyanov, who worked in the 1869–1886 years Director and inspector of schools Simbirsk province, as well as Vishevsky I.V., Ilminsky N.I., Shestanov P. D.
Simbirsk’s school became a kind of national universities, academies, conservatories, theater for the Chuvash people.

Famous graduates