Paul Goble
Staunton, June 5 – More than a quarter of Russia’s schools of immediate capital repairs, and almost a quarter of these are in such bad shape that they are a threat to the pupils and teachers that use them, according to data gathered by the To Be Precise portal. And those are all-Russian averages. In some federal subjects, the situation is even worse.
In Murmansk Oblast, for example, 77 percent of the schools need repairs; and in Kirov Oblast, Kareliya and Kabardino-Balkaria, more than 50 percent do (t.me/tochno_st/535 and nemoskva.net/2025/06/05/kazhdoj-chetvertoj-shkole-v-rossii-nuzhen-kapitalnyj-remont/). But even that is just the tip of the iceberg of this disaster.
Thirty-nine hundred schools do not have sewage plumbing, 3400 don’t have water, and 3500 don’t have central heating. Among the worse in this regard are Tyva, Dagestan and Sakha, where such amenities are well above a third and in some cases even above 50 percent of the total (ehorussia.com/new/node/32788).
In many places, the authorities are doing little or nothing to address these shortcomings. In Sakha, for example, the republic government has not invested any money over the last decade to build indoor toilets. And in the Transbaikal, more than 300 schools still force their children to go to outhouses.
That is not the only problem Russia’s schools face: They also are having ever more difficulty finding enough teachers especially in the STEM subjects (novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/06/05/posle-shkoly-komu-ty-nuzhen), and Moscow now wants to “optimize,” a euphemism for “close” libraries (t.me/tochno_st/535ticles/148406.html).
At the same time, the absence of indoor toilets, plumbing and heating continues to hit the Russian population as a whole: Every fourth family, some 35 million people lives in a home without an indoor toilet, 29 million don’t have running water, and 27 million don’t have heat except from stoves (rosstat.gov.ru/bgd/regl/b12_04/isswww.exe/stg/d06/2-00.htm).
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