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MOSCOW, August 2 School libraries in the new regions of the Russian Federation will also receive books by Zakhar Prilepin, head of the Ministry of Education Sergei Kravtsov said.
«Sets of books that school libraries will receive include books for reading for all levels of education. We have approved and sent to the Ministry of Digital Development the corresponding list. It contains about 200 mostly Russian authors,» he said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin .
For younger students, it included, in particular, the works of Agnia Barto, Konstantin Paustovsky, Samuil Marshak, Ivan Krylov's fables, collections of Russian folk tales, the minister added.
«For the primary school — the immortal classics. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gamzatov's poems, Tvardovsky's military poetry. For the senior classes, these are Dostoevsky, Ostrovsky, Bulgakov, Tsvetaeva and Akhmatova, Mandelstam , Brodsky. Among contemporary authors, for example, Zakhar Prilepin,» Kravtsov said.
He emphasized that all sets of books will be delivered to all school libraries, the total number of donated books will be almost 2 million copies.
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