1st of September is the beginning of the school year for schools, colleges and Universities of Russia. In our country it's a holiday called "The Day Of Knowledges".The most of important this day is for the first graders who are coming for the first time in a first class. It's one of the events that will never repeat for them.Usually, at the 1st of September, there never the lessons but just so called "School Line". It's the ceremony when all pupils are standing in line over the School yard. They are listening to the official speech of the School Director who congratulate everyone with a beginning of the new school yes. Then a concert programs goes with songs, dances, rhymes and sending ballons to the sky. Though, the festive program can vary a lot from school to school.The culmination of every School Line is when an older pupil is carry a little girl on hands and she's ringing a bell. It's symbolize the ring for the beginning of the school year.Such a First Day of School is for Victoria Baklykova today and through her experience we'll get deep inside of one of the School Lines in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.Victoria went to one of the national Bashkir schools of Ufa which is actually have no many differences from usual Russian schools but just have an advanced study of Bashkir language and whole culture of Bashkirs, an indigenous people of Bashkortostan.We decided to went her there because we respect Bashkortostan as a place where we were born and live and because her mother, Albina Baklykova, is ethnically Bashkir. So Victoria is half-Bashkir as well.The School in Russia starts with Primary School where the children study for three years in one classroom and mostly with one teacher (expect Physical Culture and Singing lessons).And only since 4th class, pupils are starting to study in a different classrooms depending on the subject. If it's Mathematics, they go to the Mathematics classroom, if it's Geography, they go to Geography classroom and so.In Russia you can study as for only 8 years, as for 10 years. But if you study 8 years you will finish with an Incomplete Secondary Education and will not able to go to the University, and if you study all 10 years you can go to the University right after school.Russian schools are working in two shifts - from about 8am to 1pm, and from 1pm to about 6pm.One lesson in Russian schools lasts for 40 minites with 10 minutes breaks. The lunch time is coming after the second lesson of the shift.The first classes study mostly in a first shift because it's more organic to similar to the schedule they had in a kinder garten.There 9 subjects that are common everywhere for the first class school in Rusia: Calligraphy (Writing), Reading, Mathematics, Labour, Nature Study, Music (Singing), Drawing, Physical Culture and Russian language. In our case, it's also Bashkir language.During the First Day Of School ceremony you can listen to the national Bashkir songs and watch national Bashkir folk dances.Our postcards - realrussiablog.com/postcards realrussiablog@gmail.com