Dear visitors!
On November 6, 2015, at 11:00 am, the gymnasium will celebrate its 135th anniversary in the DRUZHBA Narodiv Palace of Culture.
This section of the site was created for this date. Its content depends on former graduates and teachers.
The administration of the gymnasium will be grateful to everyone who will help us prepare for the anniversary.
Please send your materials to serte@i.ua
Congratulations on the anniversary from the Shevchenko family
We sincerely congratulate the administration, teachers and students of the First City Gymnasium and wish them a happy 135th anniversary! For many years, the gymnasium has been a source of knowledge and a center of scientific and educational thought. For our family, it has also become truly dear. The fate of three generations of the Shevchenko family is connected with the gymnasium, whose members have studied, are studying today and work within its walls. The strong connection of our family began in 1978 and continues to this day (37 years!).
Today, the First City Gymnasium provides not only thorough and comprehensive knowledge, but also shapes personalities, fosters patriotic feelings for the country and is a reliable pass to the best domestic and foreign universities. Innovation and creative ideas have always been the hallmark of the gymnasium, which has a positive impact on the formation of high life values of its students.
On this significant day, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the teachers of the gymnasium for their hard work. We believe that the students of the gymnasium will always preserve, honor and multiply the glorious traditions of the First City Gymnasium. We wish you all peace, prosperity, success, professional growth, inspiration and harmony!
Sincerely
Shevchenko Lyubov Ivanovna - teacher of the First City Gymnasium
Hrytsenko Zhanna Petrivna - graduated in 1989, head of the US Peace Corps Volunteer Service Program in Ukraine
Irzhavska Anzhela Petrivna - 1990 graduate, acting Head of the Department of World History and International Relations of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University, Associate Professor, PhD in History
Lagovska Halyna Petrivna - graduated in 1997, Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University
Bohdan Irzhavskyi - graduated in 2013, third-year student of the Institute of Investigative Training for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
Irzhavskyi Maksym - 6-A grade student of the First City Gymnasium
Hrytsenko Dmytro - a student of the 5th grade of the First City Gymnasium
Danylo Lagovskyi - 3rd grade student of the First City Gymnasium
Andriy Hrytsenko - a student of the 1st grade of the First City Gymnasium
Congratulations on the anniversary from A.M. Gusak.
Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for your attention and for inviting me to the celebrations on the occasion of the 135th anniversary of the first city gymnasium, where I had the pleasure of studying in 1960-1970.
Unfortunately, I will most likely not be able to attend the celebrations for reasons beyond my control. I congratulate my home school on its anniversary and am sending you materials that may be useful to you in creating an alumni database. I would like to emphasize that during the period of my study, the first school had just started teaching English from the first grade, but did not forget about other subjects.
In particular, the first school taught math quite well (in particular, my favorite math teacher Lidia Fedorovna - it was under her that we began to win regional math competitions), Russian literature (my favorite class - really cool! teacher was Vera Yakovlevna Dashevska-Chudnovska), Ukrainian literature (I think it was Mrs. Golik), English language and literature (in particular, the strict and fair Leonid Yosypovych, and the very young Galina Sigismundovna), physical education (the original and optimistic Lev Rafailovych). Oleksii Mykhailovych Vovkotrub (a teacher and head teacher) tried to explain the essence of physics to us at least a little bit during morning special classes (half an hour before the start of classes). I am eternally grateful to all named and unnamed teachers and bow my already graying head low to them. I hope that I have not disgraced the honorable title of a graduate of Cherkasy School No. 1.
It so happened that I graduated from the Faculty of Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University (with honors) and for most of my life, in addition to teaching, I have been engaged in research in the field of materials physics. My relatively decent (at that time) knowledge of English (acquired at our school), after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, helped me establish working contacts with experts in my field of science. As a result, over the past 20 years, I have made more than 50 scientific visits to universities in the United States, France, Russia, Germany, Singapore, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Spain, and the Czech Republic, where I have conducted research and lectured on the physics of nanomaterials, published two monographs in English, chapters in four more monographs, and more than a hundred scientific articles in international professional journals.
A list of my main publications can be found online:
https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?hl=ru&user=dsm_M8gAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-5559
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7005107923
I am sending my CV and the texts of some of my articles as an attachment. If necessary, students can use them in their technical translation classes. If necessary, I can provide the school with files with the texts of my monographs in English, published by Wiley (USA) and Wiley-VCH (Germany).
Sincerely, Andriy Gusak, born in 1954, graduated from Cherkasy High School No. 1 in 1970 (gold medal, one of six in that special year, among other medalists were the well-known Volodymyr Khandohiy, Zhanna Holubnycha, and Tanya Leshchenko), Doctor of Physics and Mathematics since 1992, Professor of Physics at Cherkasy National University since 1994, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine since 1996.
Congratulations on the anniversary of the gymnasium from the graduate, General Borys Kremenetskyi
Dear friends, students and teachers of the First City Gymnasium!
Congratulations to all of us on the 135th anniversary of the school.
In many parts of the world, our First City Gymnasium is well known as a well-known brand of quality education, deep knowledge, high level of proficiency in many foreign languages, patriotism, and nobility.
On all continents, you can meet graduates of the First City Gymnasium who uphold the traditions and multiply the school's history, increase its authority and expand international relations.
It would be a great pleasure to be with you in your hometown and celebrate the school's anniversary together.
We sincerely wish our teachers creative restlessness and inspiration, patience, unquenchable energy, student and parental respect and good health, and our students - an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and academic success. Always remember your school and support its authority.
Best regards and best wishes,
Head of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire and Stabilization of the Contact Line in South-Eastern Ukraine
Major General Borys Kremenetskyi and his wife Alisa
(Class of 1978)
Greetings from the Consul of the Embassy of Ukraine in the UK, PMG alumnus Volodymyr Kovalenko
Dear Sergey Ivanovich, teachers of the First City Gymnasium and dear students.
I am pleased to realize that today we are celebrating another solemn date of our gymnasium, and each of us recalls pleasant times of studying, our teachers, about whom we remember only pleasant things. Studying at a school on a hill near the Dnipro River was the first impetus for many of us to achieve future success, and it was here that we realized that if you have a dream, you need to do everything possible to achieve it. By the nature of my work, I had the opportunity to work for more than 20 years outside of Ukraine in Africa, Asia and Europe, and I want to testify that I have met my countrymen and our graduates in many countries around the world.
I wish all of you all the best, and I wish our students to master various professions. Become real specialists, and knowledge of a foreign language will enable you to stay ahead of the curve, give you access to the heritage of mankind and make you in demand.
My regards to Sergiy Ivanovych and the teaching staff of the gymnasium.
Sincerely yours,
Volodymyr Kovalenko
Counsellor/Consul
Embassy of Ukraine to the UK
78 Kensington Park Road
London
W11 2PL
Address to the graduates of the First City Gymnasium in Cherkasy on the occasion of its 135th anniversary
In October 2015, the First City Gymnasium of the Cherkasy City Council of Cherkasy Oblast will celebrate its 135th anniversary (headmaster S. Sayenko). Prominent alumni of the gymnasium include writers M. Dry-Khmara, O. Lebedenko, D. Korolevych, graphic artist V. Zamirailo, historian B. Krupnytsky, academician, indologist O. Barannikov, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland V. Khandohiy.
A wonderful article in English dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the gymnasium “Our graduates are our pride” was written by a methodologist, Honored Teacher of Ukraine Natalia V. Rebenko. Cherkasy Region - 60 Years. Cherkasy: V. O. Velivchenko Publishing House, 2014 - pp. 71-80). In it, Nataliia Vasylivna talks about graduates who have succeeded in various fields of activity: diplomacy, linguistics, economics, law, medicine, theater, art, and other areas. She mentions Volodymyr Khandohiy and Volodymyr Kovalenko, Borys Kremenetsky and Oleksandr Samarsky as well-known diplomats and statesmen, as well as a number of other alumni.
We cannot fail to mention such graduates as Natalia Yereskovska, Yulia Glushchenko, Zoya Frolova, Viktor and Anton Frolov, Oleksandr Tsepko, Yulia Obidina, Yuriy Karpenko, Andriy Kononenko, Kateryna Buriak, Viktor Hladun, Anna Khodas, Olena Pashis, Anna Shylko, Olha Tikhonova, Artem Plakushchyi, Zhanna Shevchenko, Olha Harlan, Lesia Narbut, Vasyl Ananiev, Tetiana Rizaeva, Olena Rebenko, Oles Kovalenko, Lesia Osaulenko, Yevhenia Chernetska, Natalia Kita, Oleksandra Salnykova, Yana Bilous, Natalia Mokrushyna, Olha Cherevko, Denys Shpak, Maksym Potiomkin, Natalia Vakulenko, Olha Inozemtseva, Yulia Shevchenko, Inna Korytan, Oksana Yankova, Tetiana and Myroslava Vakulenko, Dmytro Abramenko, Dmytro Ananiev, Marina Eremeeva, Oleksandr Ovcharov, Vadym Chmil, Anna Guk, Oleksiy Solomko, Ivan and Oleg Savelyev, Oleksiy Semak, Ivan Zemzyulin, Anatoliy Shatkovsky, who are successfully working in international organizations and government agencies.
Our graduates do not limit themselves to certain areas of activity. The variety of their interests and professions is impressive. Many of them have become scientists, including Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor Andrii Husak, Candidates of Sciences Valentyna Velivchenko and her son Viktor Velivchenko, Volodymyr Karikash, Tamila Smirnova (Kravchenko), Lesya Yevtushenko (Dikhtyareva), Oksana Kusa, Yulia Makarenko, Iryna Ivanova, Olga Paliychuk, Angela Shevchenko, Oleh Hordunovsky, Oleksandr Butenko, Yulia Matasova, Yulia Khrypko, Anna Sinyok, Anna Shvydka (Hordiychuk), and many others. By the way, Oleksandr Butenko received three degrees and became a PhD in Economics at the age of 26.
Many former graduates and teachers of the gymnasium live and work abroad, including Natalia Ereskovskaya (Trubnikova), Alla Litovskaya, Lesya Shandura, Emilia Zinovievna Ryskina, Tatiana Moroz, Victoria Poll, and Elena Bilous (Morrow), Tatiana Petrovna Ishchenko and her daughter Inna, Natalia Vladimirovna Slokva and her daughter Yevhenia, Natalia Sergiyivna Annenkova, Anna Svitlychna, Estella Kirsanova, Yulia Popova, Olena Kopylenko, Oleksandr Luhovskyi, Anna Ruzhanovska, Oleksandr Kovalenko, Serhiy Piskun, and Kateryna Shynkarenko, Natalia Martynenko, Anton Khlebas, Olga Toporova, Bohdana Kabushka, Natalia Bruslanova (Hertel), Maryna Solovyova, Svitlana Ilchenko, Yulia Gryshchenko, Diana Jabotynska, Yulia Somikova, Svitlana and Iryna Denha, Estella Kirsanova, Dmytro Shvets, Oksana Prokopenko, and Tetiana Tsokalo (USA), Iryna Kolyada, Albina Prodaivoda (Bondar) and her daughter Albina, Veronika Ogneva, Olena Vorobyova, Olena Slobodianiuk, Maria Shchedrina, Antonina Mayboroda (Germany), Oksana Babanska, Anna Savchenko, Oleksandra Anopina, Anna Bilous (Vagramova), Oleh Rebenko, Victoria Androsova, Anatoliy Shkrebtiy, Anna and Yulia Kalinichenko, Lesia and Roman Strokach, Olga Ilchenko, Oleksandr Nesterenko, Kristina Vinnichenko, Julia Reshetnyak (Canada), Yuriy Bozhko, Natalia and Svitlana Kozenkov, Natalia Samotuga (Popova), Myroslava Syvolap, Anna Solodka, Ruslan Mazurovsky, Yulia Khrypko, Anna Ovdiienko, Iryna and Kateryna Sologub, Viktor Yevpak, Petro Somikov (UK), Tetiana Mykolenko, Marina Kosmina (Spain), Oksana Dudko, Marina Vasitskaya (Italy), Alla Senina (Israel), Kateryna Radko (Poland), Elena Molchanova (Chile), Milena Zhuravleva, Natalia Dobrianska (Czech Republic), Ivan Samotuga (Kazakhstan), Victoria Tychkova, Vladislav Gorbenko (Russia), Inessa Pavlyuchenko, Natalia Melnyk (France), Alexandra Garshina (Hungary), Lesya Noga, Volodymyr Tomasz, Oles Kovalenko, Julia Amelina (Switzerland), Ihor Khlebas, Natalia Pipka, Artem Padalko (China). The entire Shmyhol family (father, mother, and son) works in China.
The Educational and Research Institute of Cherkasy National
University are former graduates of the gymnasium Valentyna Fedorivna Velivchenko and Viktor Olehovych Velivchenko, Larysa Oleksandrivna Pashis, Tamila Mykolaivna Kravchenko, Oksana Anopina, Olha Ivanivna Holubnycha, Nataliia Serhiivna Rybalka, Olena Viktorivna Shaparieva, Anastasiia Borysivna Ryzhkova, Oksana Borysivna Petrova, Svitlana Anatoliivna Alifanova, Nataliia Podolianska, Anna Podolianska, Oleh Kalko, and Anna Valentynivna Shvydka (Hordiichuk).
Ihor Valentynovych Limborskyi, Doctor of Philology, professor, author of more than 130 scientific works, is widely known as the head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Cherkasy State Technological University. Our alumni Yulia Makarenko, Lesia Yevtushenko (Digtyareva), and Olena Yatsenko (Zozulia) also teach at this university.
Our alumni Lyudmyla Mykolaivna Basysta, Olha Oleksiivna Vakulenko, Nataliia Khvorostantseva, Estella Volodymyrivna Kirsanova, Nina Anatoliivna Ovcharova, Olena Mykolaivna Omelianenko, Olha Vasylivna Potiomkina, Valerii Mykolaiovych Potiomkin, Yuliia Valentynivna Pais, Anatolii Volodymyr Stepanenko, Pavlo Mykolaiovych Svitlychnyi, and Yuliia Konstiantynivna Rabenko work as teachers at the gymnasium.
The following graduates work as teachers in secondary schools in Cherkasy: Svitlana Megashko, Tetiana Berko, Svitlana Sokurenko, Natalia Tkachuk, Natalia Smiyan, Olena Kozachynska, Liudmyla Bratko, and Iryna Kovalska. Valentyna Churchyna is the principal of school No. 5 in Cherkasy. Valentyna Churchyna is the principal of Cherkasy School No. 5.
Many of the graduates have law or economics degrees and work for well-known campaigns both in Ukraine and abroad. Among them are Taras Kovalenko, Viktor Yevpak, Volodymyr Tomash, Vadym Shevchenko, Serhiy Zhurba, Oleksandr Beihul, Oleksandr Sukhobrus, Oksana Yankova, Serhiy Rudenko, Anatoliy Shatkovsky, Valentyn Shendryk, Oleksiy Solomko, Zoryana Isayenko, Mykola Pidhornyi, Svitlana Petrenko, Olena Chazova, Oleksiy Beznos, Maryna Romaniy and others. Anastasia Ivanenko is successfully working in Malta.
There are also doctors among the graduates, namely: Olga Paliychuk, Tetiana Shandra, Oleh Zhurba, Oleksandr Melnyk, Yaroslav Melnyk, Viacheslav Kulchykovsky, Oksana Kulchykovska (Glushchenko), Oleksiy Boyko, Olga Maksymiak, Yuriy Bosyi, Oleh Velivchenko, Olena Khomenko (Kolomiets), Lesia Holik, Volodymyr Fesiuk, Leonid Fedoruk, Serhiy Chemeris, Andriy Kovalenko, Yaroslav Kovalenko, Olha Babanska (Tryukhan), Svitlana Bilytsia, Andriy Deyneka, Serhiy Polyakh, Lilia Zrelikh, Natalia Rossomakha, Yaroslav Prysiazhnyi, and others.
Valeriia Semenova, Olga Tarasenko, Volodymyr Litvish, Vladyslav Chetyrko, Ilya Tikhonov (Ukraine), Elena Sobol (Russia) and entrepreneurs Yevhen Yeremenko, Denys Ananiev, Oleksandr and Dmytro Krotovych are successful translators, Konstantin Chernetsky, Vera Podobedova, Oleksandr Kolomiets, Oleksiy Klimov, Andriy Tretiak, Oleksandr Tsokalo, Lesya Vergun, Oksana Nepochatenko (Guk), Oleksandr Musienko, Ivanna Musienko, Valeria Ionan. Mykola Pasenchenko, a long-distance sailing captain, is also among our graduates.
The names of our graduates are also known in the arts: Andrii Khlyvniuk, soloist of the famous band Boombox, Andrii Zhyla, Honored Artist of Ukraine, Mykhailo Kondratskyi, Honored Artist of Ukraine, Oleksandr Karpenko, famous Afghan poet, Anna Andreeva, film actress (USA), Anna Kilchenko, singer, Olena Matsiutska, TV journalist of 1+1 TV channel, Dmytro Obrizan, Oleksandr Skichko, TV presenters, Oksana Kotliarenko, journalist and in sports Volodymyr Tkachenko, world and European champion, medalist of the Seoul Olympics (1988), 35-time champion of the Olympic Games in Seoul. ), 35-time USSR swimming champion, Svyatoslav Mykhailyuk, famous basketball player (Cherkasy Monkeys), who now plays for the University of Kansas, USA.
We all remember Pavlo Lazarenko, a 1991 graduate who died during the ATO in June 2014.
Dear alumni! We are confident that with your help we will be able to find out about other alumni and include them in the book “Our Alumni are Our Pride”. We want to know more about you. Go to our website fcg.ck.ua (Ukrainian, English, congratulations), send us photos and write to us about yourself and the gymnasium that gave you a ticket to life. Your Alma Mater is waiting for you at the official celebration of its 135th anniversary in October 2015.
N.V. Ananieva, Ph,
deputy director of the gymnasium,
Honored Teacher of Ukraine