20 February 2009, 19:00
After inspections, over 20 schools and kindergartens close in Krasnodar Territory
After prosecutor's inspections held amidst the academic year, 21 children's educational establishments of the Krasnodar Territory preferred to get closed for capital repairs.
The Territorial Prosecutor's Office held broad-scale inspections well before the start of the school year, and resumed them after the tragedy in Orenburg region, where in October 2008 five senior schoolgirls perished when their school collapsed.
Oleg Lobanov, senior public prosecutor from the division for supervising enforcement of legislation on minors, has reported that among those closed establishments there is a boarding school in the Sochi settlement of Kudepsta, which was already under the liquidation procedure, as the school was built on a landslip and could crash down any moment.
The "First Kuban Radio" has announced that repairs will take from six to twelve months. In the meantime, children from kindergartens will sit at home, and pupils will go to other schools.
Meanwhile, the situation with school buildings in the capital of the Territory is much better that in the districts. None of the kindergartens or schools was closed. "All the buildings are in good condition," said Irina Alfyorova, deputy head of the department of secondary and vocational training of Krasnodar, as quoted by the "Komsomolskaya Pravda".
