Five schools built in Tajikistan under financial support of Russia to receive a total of $91 mln for equipment

Five Russian-language schools, built in Tajikistan under financial support of the Russian Federation, will receive a total of 5.74 billion Russian rubles (equivalent to 91 million US dollars) for material and technical equipment.  

An appropriate order on this subject signed by Russian Prime Minister on December 8, 2022 has been posted on the legal information portal.  

Recall, five Russian-language schools built in the Tajik cities of Dushanbe, Bokhtar, Kulob, Khujand and Tursunzoda under financial support of the Russian Federation were commissioned in September this year.  

Two government-to-government agreements on cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia in the field of education were signed in Dushanbe on November 30, 2021.

The documents determine the status of Russian teachers and principles of operation of five Russian-language schools built in Tajikistan under financial support of the Russian Federation.

A government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and Russia on construction of five Russian-language schools in Tajikistan was signed in Moscow on April 17, 2019.  Each of these schools will accommodate up to 1,200 pupils.

At the start of the academic year 2018-2019, Russia sent 30 teachers to secondary schools in Tajikistan.  Teachers from the Russian regions of Kostroma, Kemerovo, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, and Tatarstan arrived in Tajikistan to teach subjects such as mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, Russian, and others at secondary schools where teaching is conducted in Russian.

On October 15, 2020, 50 Russian teachers arrived in Tajikistan to teach in 22 schools located in Dushanbe, Khorog, Khujand, Kulob, Bokhtar, Spitamen, Asht, Hisor and some other cities and districts of the country.  Only six of them arrived in Tajikistan for the first time, while others taught in schools in Tajikistan in 2019 and decided to return to Tajikistan again.

The education sector in Tajikistan has been in decline after collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and many Tajik nationals described the effort to bring over Russian teachers as a much-needed remedy.