OREANDA-NEWS. December 22, 2008. Governor of Chelyabinsk region Pyotr Sumin and head of municipal district Tanir Yanbayev inaugurated a secondary school in Novomuslumovo, Kunashak district.

The opening of the school is part of the project to recover the basin of Techa River and to resettle the residents of the village of Muslumovo, launched two years ago. These measures are being carried out in the framework of the federal program to overcome the consequences of the accident at Mayak PA developed by Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the government of Chelyabisnk region.

Sumin expressed satisfaction with the project: the school has been built very quickly in line with all relevant standards. Sumin visited the physics, chemistry, informatics and computer rooms. In the near future the school will receive equipment for foreign language laboratory. The school has a gym and a big library.

“I am happy at what I have seen,” that’s what Sumit wrote down in the book’s guest book. “Your school is a real temple of knowledge. Your have excellent teachers and wonderful talented pupils. I wish you health and happiness.”

Sumin also visited a number of newly built houses. 58 families already live in the village with 30 more expected to move in by the end of this year. The one- and two-storied cottages have gas, water and sewage system and land plots.

Sumin assured the residents of Novomuslumovo that despite economic difficulties the project would be finished: “We are not going to stop and will continue the construction till 2010,” Sumin said in a phone talk with Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko before the visit to Novomuzlumovo.