February
1947
The Public
education authorities decided to relieve school No. 8 named after A.S. Pushkin.
The new school, with a total of 500 students, received the number “55”!
The second
director of N55 was the head teacher of the school, Maria Mikhailovna Shiukova.
The new school was given independence, but was not allocated a separate building.
For four long years, two schools operated in the same building. We huddled in
the basement.
For both
schools, this was very difficult time in all respects, however, following the
decision to create school N55, there was a decision to begin construction of a
new building for it at the address Bagramyan, 16. How impatiently both schools,
but especially the teaching staff and students of school N55, awaited the
completion of the new building.
The
long-awaited construction of our school building has been completed on one of
the most beautiful streets of Yerevan, Baghramyan Avenue. The author of the
school building project was Martirosyan Hakob Martirosovich, chief engineer of
Armpromproekt, Honored Engineer of the Republic.
Oh, what a
great happiness! We received our own building, our own school, but,
unfortunately, it was intended for only 600 students.
In 1953, the
number of students doubled! In the same year, the school gave its first
graduation, which was celebrated as a big, very solemn festival. Moreover, the result was excellent:
9 gold and 22 silver medals!!!
The
foundation for the glory of school N55 was laid by its creative team under the
leadership of M.M. Shiukova and head teacher Boyadzhyan L.D.!
Until 1954,
school N 55 was female, and from the 1954/55 academic year it became mixed.
Chekhov's
idea that “a person must work, work hard, no matter who he is, and the meaning
and purpose of his life lies in this, his happiness, his delight” became the slogan of the school staff!
In 1956, a
bust of A.P. Chekhov was placed in front of the school entrance.
The monument
amazed all those present with its high art of execution. Author-sculptor
Grigory Petrovich Aharonyan! From the height of the marble pedestal, kind,
sweet Anton Pavlovich looked at us, as if admonishing those around him to do
good deeds and accomplishments.
Years
passed. In 1990 Because of an unhealthy hatred of everything Soviet, everything
that our people had achieved in the period preceding 1990 was mercilessly and
unscrupulously destroyed. And this was the labor and sweat of our people.
In 1992 the
school became Armenian. 1992-94 were devastating for the school. Ashot
Vazrikovich Kakosyan, a mathematics teacher of the Institute of National
Economy, was appointed as the director.
He showed a
complete lack of understanding of the importance of preserving school
documentation: these are books of orders for the school, personal files of
teachers, personal files of students, the school archive from 1947-92, these
are magazines with student certification assessments from 1953-92.
The school
also suffered significant material damage.
The school
found itself in such a deplorable state by 1994.
Since 1995
To 2022, the school was headed by a director, Sarukhanyan Gayane Georgievna. Since
2022 To this day, the school is headed by a new director Diana Minasyan.