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A Magician’s School, a Neuro-Library, and Magnetic Fields: Kstovo Hosts Intensive Master Classes for Teachers with SIBUR’s Support

10 november 2025

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As part of a project that is traditionally supported by SIBUR’s <i>Formula for Good Deeds</i> social investment program, local mathematics, physics, and chemistry teachers got introduced to innovative teaching methods and practices. The ultimate objective here was not just to expand the teachers' professional knowledge, but also to help them nurture skills in their students that will be needed to make them competitive professionals in the digital age.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">Yuri Bobrinev, deputy principal and a physics teacher at Moscow’s Gymnasium No. 1514, an Honorary Worker of General Education in Russia, a laureate of the Moscow’s 2009 Best Teacher, and a two-time winner of the national Best Teacher prize awarded as part of the national priority project titled <i>Education</i>, shared his insights on integrating character development into classroom session and, more generally, into overall school culture. His session focused on organizing the educational process at school and on implementing practices that help foster behavioral awareness, making them a part of school curriculum.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">At the interactive lecture titled <i>A Kilogram for Physicists, Chemists, and Mathematicians</i> its attendees explored various approaches to measurement as adopted by different hard sciences. The session was taught by Vladimir Golovner, a project’s veteran and a chemistry teacher at Moscow’s School No. 1259, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, and Honored Teacher of Russia. The lecture ended with a scientific quest requiring its participants to try to "save" one of humanity's most basic units of measurement, the kilogram.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">The session provocatively titled <i>No Kidding, Sherlock!</i> by Pyotr Zemskov, a top-category teacher from the Chelyabinsk Regional Multidisciplinary Lyceum, author of popular recreational mathematics books, and laureate of the <i>Znaniye</i> award for the best popular science book, produced quite an impact on its attendees. The teachers put to the test various unconventional approaches to teaching lessons and conducting extracurricular activities. Zemskov’s <i>Practical School for Magicians</i> master class drew an equal amount of attention. The class was used to showcase the real magic of mathematics, while exploring what a challenging math problem has in common with a good magic trick and how one can use mathematical tricks in teaching.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">Natalia Bogolepova, a chemistry teacher at Kstovo’s Gymnasium No. 4, shared her reaction: “<i>My initial impression of the sessions is one of complete immersion in an unfamiliar atmosphere where you break free from your everyday school routine and enter a space filled with creative people and innovative ideas. Our encounter with our today’s fantastic lecturers made me realize how fascinating and multi-faceted our teaching profession is, and how much room it provides for further growth and for experimentation.”</i></span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">The participants of the sessions were also offered to explore several thematic exhibition booths. The <i>School Laboratory</i> booth showcased functional devices hand-built by 8th and 9th graders as part of their physics coursework, including an instrument to measure the horizontal component of Earth’s magnetic field, a device for studying the motion of a projectile thrown at an angle to the horizon, a manual camera guide for long-exposure astrophotography, and others.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">At the Neuro-Library booth, the teachers got introduced to a program of games and exercises designed for students who are struggling with maintaining focus because of issues with restlessness, attention deficit, or because they need their behavior to be adjusted. The booth session also showcased techniques employing kinesthetic balls and the Cerebellar Stimulation method, with the participants being offered to try using these neuro-simulators on their own.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">Liana Kuzminykh, Director of Human Resources at SIBUR-Kstovo and RusVinyl, highlighted the project’s proven value: <i>“For Kstovo, this project comes as a brand new initiative, but across all of SIBUR’s cities of presence, the Intensive Sessions for Teachers program has been around for five years and has definitely shown its utility. A prime example of this is Nizhnekamsk’s Lyceum No. 35 whose teachers have been active participants of the project. As a result, the lyceum now ranks among Russia’s top five schools in terms of the grades received by its leavers at the country’s national exam. Our goal is to provide access to state-of-the-art methodologies, enhance teacher competencies, and help align the school curricula with the fast-evolving requirements of the job market and of technology. I am confident this systematic work will elevate the quality of school education in Kstovo to a new level.”</i></span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <i><span style="color: #575757;">Background:</span></i> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <i><span style="color: #575757;">The </span></i><span style="color: #575757;">Formula for Good Deeds<i>, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at </i></span><a href="http://www.formula-hd.ru/"><i>www.formula-hd.ru</i></a><i><span style="color: #575757;">.</span></i><span style="color: #575757;"> </span> </p> [TYPE] => HTML ) [DESCRIPTION] => [~VALUE] => Array ( [TEXT] =>

150 teachers from Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’s Kstovo have completed a series of intensive training sessions taught by leading instruction practitioners from Moscow, Chelyabinsk, and Nizhnekamsk. As part of a project that is traditionally supported by SIBUR’s Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, local mathematics, physics, and chemistry teachers got introduced to innovative teaching methods and practices. The ultimate objective here was not just to expand the teachers' professional knowledge, but also to help them nurture skills in their students that will be needed to make them competitive professionals in the digital age.

Yuri Bobrinev, deputy principal and a physics teacher at Moscow’s Gymnasium No. 1514, an Honorary Worker of General Education in Russia, a laureate of the Moscow’s 2009 Best Teacher, and a two-time winner of the national Best Teacher prize awarded as part of the national priority project titled Education, shared his insights on integrating character development into classroom session and, more generally, into overall school culture. His session focused on organizing the educational process at school and on implementing practices that help foster behavioral awareness, making them a part of school curriculum.

At the interactive lecture titled A Kilogram for Physicists, Chemists, and Mathematicians its attendees explored various approaches to measurement as adopted by different hard sciences. The session was taught by Vladimir Golovner, a project’s veteran and a chemistry teacher at Moscow’s School No. 1259, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, and Honored Teacher of Russia. The lecture ended with a scientific quest requiring its participants to try to "save" one of humanity's most basic units of measurement, the kilogram.

The session provocatively titled No Kidding, Sherlock! by Pyotr Zemskov, a top-category teacher from the Chelyabinsk Regional Multidisciplinary Lyceum, author of popular recreational mathematics books, and laureate of the Znaniye award for the best popular science book, produced quite an impact on its attendees. The teachers put to the test various unconventional approaches to teaching lessons and conducting extracurricular activities. Zemskov’s Practical School for Magicians master class drew an equal amount of attention. The class was used to showcase the real magic of mathematics, while exploring what a challenging math problem has in common with a good magic trick and how one can use mathematical tricks in teaching.

Natalia Bogolepova, a chemistry teacher at Kstovo’s Gymnasium No. 4, shared her reaction: “My initial impression of the sessions is one of complete immersion in an unfamiliar atmosphere where you break free from your everyday school routine and enter a space filled with creative people and innovative ideas. Our encounter with our today’s fantastic lecturers made me realize how fascinating and multi-faceted our teaching profession is, and how much room it provides for further growth and for experimentation.”

The participants of the sessions were also offered to explore several thematic exhibition booths. The School Laboratory booth showcased functional devices hand-built by 8th and 9th graders as part of their physics coursework, including an instrument to measure the horizontal component of Earth’s magnetic field, a device for studying the motion of a projectile thrown at an angle to the horizon, a manual camera guide for long-exposure astrophotography, and others.

At the Neuro-Library booth, the teachers got introduced to a program of games and exercises designed for students who are struggling with maintaining focus because of issues with restlessness, attention deficit, or because they need their behavior to be adjusted. The booth session also showcased techniques employing kinesthetic balls and the Cerebellar Stimulation method, with the participants being offered to try using these neuro-simulators on their own.

Liana Kuzminykh, Director of Human Resources at SIBUR-Kstovo and RusVinyl, highlighted the project’s proven value: “For Kstovo, this project comes as a brand new initiative, but across all of SIBUR’s cities of presence, the Intensive Sessions for Teachers program has been around for five years and has definitely shown its utility. A prime example of this is Nizhnekamsk’s Lyceum No. 35 whose teachers have been active participants of the project. As a result, the lyceum now ranks among Russia’s top five schools in terms of the grades received by its leavers at the country’s national exam. Our goal is to provide access to state-of-the-art methodologies, enhance teacher competencies, and help align the school curricula with the fast-evolving requirements of the job market and of technology. I am confident this systematic work will elevate the quality of school education in Kstovo to a new level.”

Background:

The Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at www.formula-hd.ru.

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150 teachers from Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’s Kstovo have completed a series of intensive training sessions taught by leading instruction practitioners from Moscow, Chelyabinsk, and Nizhnekamsk. As part of a project that is traditionally supported by SIBUR’s Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, local mathematics, physics, and chemistry teachers got introduced to innovative teaching methods and practices. The ultimate objective here was not just to expand the teachers' professional knowledge, but also to help them nurture skills in their students that will be needed to make them competitive professionals in the digital age.

Yuri Bobrinev, deputy principal and a physics teacher at Moscow’s Gymnasium No. 1514, an Honorary Worker of General Education in Russia, a laureate of the Moscow’s 2009 Best Teacher, and a two-time winner of the national Best Teacher prize awarded as part of the national priority project titled Education, shared his insights on integrating character development into classroom session and, more generally, into overall school culture. His session focused on organizing the educational process at school and on implementing practices that help foster behavioral awareness, making them a part of school curriculum.

At the interactive lecture titled A Kilogram for Physicists, Chemists, and Mathematicians its attendees explored various approaches to measurement as adopted by different hard sciences. The session was taught by Vladimir Golovner, a project’s veteran and a chemistry teacher at Moscow’s School No. 1259, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, and Honored Teacher of Russia. The lecture ended with a scientific quest requiring its participants to try to "save" one of humanity's most basic units of measurement, the kilogram.

The session provocatively titled No Kidding, Sherlock! by Pyotr Zemskov, a top-category teacher from the Chelyabinsk Regional Multidisciplinary Lyceum, author of popular recreational mathematics books, and laureate of the Znaniye award for the best popular science book, produced quite an impact on its attendees. The teachers put to the test various unconventional approaches to teaching lessons and conducting extracurricular activities. Zemskov’s Practical School for Magicians master class drew an equal amount of attention. The class was used to showcase the real magic of mathematics, while exploring what a challenging math problem has in common with a good magic trick and how one can use mathematical tricks in teaching.

Natalia Bogolepova, a chemistry teacher at Kstovo’s Gymnasium No. 4, shared her reaction: “My initial impression of the sessions is one of complete immersion in an unfamiliar atmosphere where you break free from your everyday school routine and enter a space filled with creative people and innovative ideas. Our encounter with our today’s fantastic lecturers made me realize how fascinating and multi-faceted our teaching profession is, and how much room it provides for further growth and for experimentation.”

The participants of the sessions were also offered to explore several thematic exhibition booths. The School Laboratory booth showcased functional devices hand-built by 8th and 9th graders as part of their physics coursework, including an instrument to measure the horizontal component of Earth’s magnetic field, a device for studying the motion of a projectile thrown at an angle to the horizon, a manual camera guide for long-exposure astrophotography, and others.

At the Neuro-Library booth, the teachers got introduced to a program of games and exercises designed for students who are struggling with maintaining focus because of issues with restlessness, attention deficit, or because they need their behavior to be adjusted. The booth session also showcased techniques employing kinesthetic balls and the Cerebellar Stimulation method, with the participants being offered to try using these neuro-simulators on their own.

Liana Kuzminykh, Director of Human Resources at SIBUR-Kstovo and RusVinyl, highlighted the project’s proven value: “For Kstovo, this project comes as a brand new initiative, but across all of SIBUR’s cities of presence, the Intensive Sessions for Teachers program has been around for five years and has definitely shown its utility. A prime example of this is Nizhnekamsk’s Lyceum No. 35 whose teachers have been active participants of the project. As a result, the lyceum now ranks among Russia’s top five schools in terms of the grades received by its leavers at the country’s national exam. Our goal is to provide access to state-of-the-art methodologies, enhance teacher competencies, and help align the school curricula with the fast-evolving requirements of the job market and of technology. I am confident this systematic work will elevate the quality of school education in Kstovo to a new level.”

Background:

The Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at www.formula-hd.ru.

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150 teachers from Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’s Kstovo have completed a series of intensive training sessions taught by leading instruction practitioners from Moscow, Chelyabinsk, and Nizhnekamsk. As part of a project that is traditionally supported by SIBUR’s Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, local mathematics, physics, and chemistry teachers got introduced to innovative teaching methods and practices. The ultimate objective here was not just to expand the teachers' professional knowledge, but also to help them nurture skills in their students that will be needed to make them competitive professionals in the digital age.

Yuri Bobrinev, deputy principal and a physics teacher at Moscow’s Gymnasium No. 1514, an Honorary Worker of General Education in Russia, a laureate of the Moscow’s 2009 Best Teacher, and a two-time winner of the national Best Teacher prize awarded as part of the national priority project titled Education, shared his insights on integrating character development into classroom session and, more generally, into overall school culture. His session focused on organizing the educational process at school and on implementing practices that help foster behavioral awareness, making them a part of school curriculum.

At the interactive lecture titled A Kilogram for Physicists, Chemists, and Mathematicians its attendees explored various approaches to measurement as adopted by different hard sciences. The session was taught by Vladimir Golovner, a project’s veteran and a chemistry teacher at Moscow’s School No. 1259, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, and Honored Teacher of Russia. The lecture ended with a scientific quest requiring its participants to try to "save" one of humanity's most basic units of measurement, the kilogram.

The session provocatively titled No Kidding, Sherlock! by Pyotr Zemskov, a top-category teacher from the Chelyabinsk Regional Multidisciplinary Lyceum, author of popular recreational mathematics books, and laureate of the Znaniye award for the best popular science book, produced quite an impact on its attendees. The teachers put to the test various unconventional approaches to teaching lessons and conducting extracurricular activities. Zemskov’s Practical School for Magicians master class drew an equal amount of attention. The class was used to showcase the real magic of mathematics, while exploring what a challenging math problem has in common with a good magic trick and how one can use mathematical tricks in teaching.

Natalia Bogolepova, a chemistry teacher at Kstovo’s Gymnasium No. 4, shared her reaction: “My initial impression of the sessions is one of complete immersion in an unfamiliar atmosphere where you break free from your everyday school routine and enter a space filled with creative people and innovative ideas. Our encounter with our today’s fantastic lecturers made me realize how fascinating and multi-faceted our teaching profession is, and how much room it provides for further growth and for experimentation.”

The participants of the sessions were also offered to explore several thematic exhibition booths. The School Laboratory booth showcased functional devices hand-built by 8th and 9th graders as part of their physics coursework, including an instrument to measure the horizontal component of Earth’s magnetic field, a device for studying the motion of a projectile thrown at an angle to the horizon, a manual camera guide for long-exposure astrophotography, and others.

At the Neuro-Library booth, the teachers got introduced to a program of games and exercises designed for students who are struggling with maintaining focus because of issues with restlessness, attention deficit, or because they need their behavior to be adjusted. The booth session also showcased techniques employing kinesthetic balls and the Cerebellar Stimulation method, with the participants being offered to try using these neuro-simulators on their own.

Liana Kuzminykh, Director of Human Resources at SIBUR-Kstovo and RusVinyl, highlighted the project’s proven value: “For Kstovo, this project comes as a brand new initiative, but across all of SIBUR’s cities of presence, the Intensive Sessions for Teachers program has been around for five years and has definitely shown its utility. A prime example of this is Nizhnekamsk’s Lyceum No. 35 whose teachers have been active participants of the project. As a result, the lyceum now ranks among Russia’s top five schools in terms of the grades received by its leavers at the country’s national exam. Our goal is to provide access to state-of-the-art methodologies, enhance teacher competencies, and help align the school curricula with the fast-evolving requirements of the job market and of technology. I am confident this systematic work will elevate the quality of school education in Kstovo to a new level.”

Background:

The Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at www.formula-hd.ru.