Keyword: «cultural and educational environment»

Teachers with university education, who work in the public schools, have made a significant contribution to the development of the Oryol region, which had no secondary education before. Among them were founders of libraries, newspaper business, first musical groups, scientists working on the creation of textbooks for Russian schools, writers and philosophers. The paper focuses on the impact of the faculty of gymnasiums on the development of cultural and educational environment of the Oryol province.