MOSCOW, August 31 Schoolchildren will continue to test their knowledge of classical literature both within the unified state exam and at the main state exam, Naila Asker-zade said in an interview on the channel «Russia 1» the head of the Ministry of Education of Russia Sergey Kravtsov.
«Therefore, the verification of these works will definitely remain in the Unified State Exam, in the Main State Exam, and within the framework of the unified literature program, we have strengthened and included the works of our outstanding writers for high school and Ostrovsky «How the Steel Was Tempered», Fadeev » Young Guard», so I recommend everyone to watch our literature program, make sure that all the works are saved,» Kravtsov said.
Earlier, the Ministry of Education of Russia denied the information spread by a number of media about the exclusion of works by Russian «classics» such as Fonvizin, Pushkin, Zhukovsky and others from the Unified State Examination in Literature 2024.