On Thursday October 15, 50 Russian teachers arrived in Tajikistan to work with local secondary schools and provide methodological assistance to their Tajik colleagues. 

They will work with local schools during the current academic year in the framework of a humanitarian project being implemented under the auspices of Russia’s Federation Council and Tajikistan’s Majlisi Milli, according to the Russian Embassy in Dushanbe.  

The teachers will work with schools located in Dushanbe, Bokhtar, Khorog, Khujand, Kulob, Spitamen and some other cities of Tajikistan.  

The humanitarian project on providing Russian teachers with work in foreign schools has been implemented by Russia’s Ministry of Education since 2017.  

Recall, 29 Russian teachers arrived in Tajikistan at the start of the 2017-2018 academic year.  Teachers from the Russian regions of Kostroma, Kemerovo, Bashkortostan, Daghestan, 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.  They worked with schools in Dushanbe, Khorog, the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), Khatlon, Sughd and districts subordinate to the center.  Of them, only three reportedly returned to Russia while the remaining 26 teachers remained in Tajikistan for one more year.  

26 another Russian teachers reportedly joined them in the 2018-2019 academic year.  They worked with schools not only in Dushanbe and Khujand but also in other regions of the country.  Thu, three of them worked with Presidential Lyceum in Khorog.