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A word about the director.

This essay was written two years before publication on the site. The heroine of the essay, Alexandra Arsentievna Sterkhova, celebrated her 80th birthday on September 12, 2015. She retired in 2014, but the school still remembers and loves her.

First of September again. The first bell rings, and smart schoolchildren rush to take their places in bright classrooms, sparkling with fresh paint, decorated with greenery and new blinds. It is cozy and festive at the school, where everything is ready for the new school year: subject rooms equipped with modern office equipment, numerous aids; a beautiful library, welcoming its first visitors with solemn silence; a spacious dining room, with a thoughtful design, more like a cozy cafe. Everything is pleasing to the eye, everything is subordinated to the main goal: to create for high school students ideal conditions for study and recreation. They strived for this and invested a lot of effort and money and parents and teachers, and, to the best of their ability, the boys themselves. But the main inspirer of all the affairs of the school-gymnasium, the creative mentor of the team, its soul is the director of the Guards UVK Alexandra Arsentievna Sterkhova.

There is no more honored person in the Simferopol region than our director. 55 years old she gave to pedagogy! The teaching career for Alexandra Arsentievna is not just a job, it is a truly great Service to the noble cause of educating new generations. Hundreds of graduates reverently pronounce the name of their beloved Director. Alexandra Arsentievna dedicated the Guards School more than forty years.On the basis of a small garrison school, she created a new multidisciplinary educational complex, year after year graduating great life comprehensively prepared students, distinguished by strong knowledge. 269 gold and silver medalists are the pride of UVK and, of course, Alexandra Arsentievna. Up to 80% of graduates enter higher educational institutions every year. 24 candidates and doctors of science were educated by the Second Guards under the leadership of director A.A. Sterkhova. The competitiveness of UVK is largely due to the high qualifications of teachers, to which Alexandra Arsentievna pays special attention: the methodological growth of the teacher, in her opinion, is the main task of the school management. The director painstakingly and skillfully guides the studies and development of each member of the team. He gives a lot of strength and energy She works with young teachers, subtly and wisely corrects the activities of experienced mentors.

A special feature of Alexandra Arsentievna is a heightened sense of the new. The most advanced pedagogical discoveries and methodological innovations are reflected in the practice of the Gvardeysky UVK. Creation of the “School of Health”, participation in the program “ Open world", the use of innovative computer technology in teaching - all this is introduced and mastered in the school-gymnasium on the initiative or with the assistance of the director.

It’s no secret how difficult it is to strengthen the material base of a school in a crisis. The role of the director in this process is decisive. Alexandra Arsentievna tirelessly searches for new opportunities, establishes connections with sponsors, and finds response and support from parents. Thanks to her dedicated activities, she flourishes Guards UVK.Equipped the latest technology informational and methodological center, classrooms, two computer classes. The school's classrooms and recreation areas are beautiful and cozy, the gym has been updated. The well-groomed school grounds delight with a variety of plants and lush decoration of the flower beds.

Forty years of school leadership! Is it a lot or a little? For children this figure is eternity, for UVK it is a formative stage, for the director it is life.

Life... Was it happy? Certainly! Since childhood, Sasha dreamed of becoming a teacher. Even in difficult times school years In war-wounded Simferopol, Sashenka helped her friends learn their homework and started games for “school.” And receded into the background, drowned out constant feeling hunger, common to all the children of that terrible time...

She graduated from eight classes with honors and, together with her friend, went to enter a pedagogical school in Kaliningrad. She will never forget that happy June day when the school director presented her with her first diploma. “You were truly born in a teacher’s shirt,” his words sounded like a school bell!

And here is the first school! Near Kaliningrad, in the Chkalovsk garrison, it began big way teacher There Alexander met her destiny as a woman. A young black-browed navigator with intolerantly blue eyes managed to win the heart of a young teacher. His name was Herman. Smart, serious, attentive - maybe this is what she dreamed about while wandering with her friends through the narrow streets of the old city, filled with the smell of blooming lilacs? The wedding was held modestly, among friends. So she found a new profession - the wife of an officer, a faithful friend and companion in the harsh military service. Son Igorek was born in Kaliningrad, and a year later German was sent to the Higher Officer Courses in Riga. New assignments - new moves, new military camps.

Far East. The Mongokhto garrison is a romantic's dream: the nearest town, Vanino, is 20 kilometers away, surrounded by a sea of ​​taiga and hills, hills... Such places remain forever in the heart... An unknown comedian named the only street of the garrison Teatralnaya. In their free time from flying, pilots and their families gathered at the Officers' House, organized unforgettable evenings, and played chess. But our favorite holiday was in nature: we picked lingonberries and mushrooms among the pines and ferns, and sang songs with a guitar. Friendship of those distant years remain faithful forever. There, in Mongokhto, Alexandra Arsentievna went through a real school of life, formation - both in the family and in the profession. Igor grew up there and German Pavlovich perfected his skills. There Sashenka first became a teacher primary classes, and then, after graduating from the Pedagogical Institute in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, he became a head teacher and director. The gratitude and respect of others is the main reward for a young director. And the love of children - schoolchildren, especially the dearest ones, whom Alexandra Arsentievna led from the first to the eighth grade, until her husband was transferred. The children have scattered all over the country, but even now, forty years later, they send their beloved teacher news about themselves and their gratitude for her huge role in educating them. best qualities. Igor Kochalovsky, already a retired captain of the 1st rank, confesses his love in poetry to a person dear to him - his first teacher, and Galina Krylova, the director of a school in St. Petersburg, calls thousands of kilometers away to hear the voice of her beloved mentor that has become familiar.

Alexandra Arsentievna has been living and working in Gvardeyskoye for forty years. Here her beloved son Igor graduated from school, from here he left to study and became, like his father, a military pilot. They were surprisingly similar - father and son: stately, beautiful, blue-eyed. Tenderness and respect from dear people is the main component of the success of director A.A. Sterkhova. The understanding, support of her husband, the care of Tatyana’s son and daughter-in-law, the love of her grandchildren and great-granddaughter are a woman’s great happiness, her support in life. Even now, when German Pavlovich is not around, she is surrounded by his paintings, written in recent years life, and their warmth helps Alexandra Arsentievna remember only the brightest things in life.

Here she is standing on the ceremonial line at school - beautiful, slender, well-groomed, confident. An extraordinary, courageous and beautiful woman! With her intelligence, high culture and noble simplicity, she managed to create around herself an atmosphere of mutual understanding, creativity, and search. For many years of fruitful activity A.A. Sterkhova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Of course, this is not the limit! We sincerely wish the director new victories, achievements and worthy appreciation of her work. Good luck to you, dear Alexandra Arsentievna!

A.A. Fischuk, teacher of Russian language and literature

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It is no secret that many beautiful and unique women live in our native and ancient Yuryevets. This is what the employees of the Ryabinka MKDOU said about one of these women.

- The other day The anniversary is celebrated by our manager Lyudmila Alekseevna Alekseeva, who recently retired. On the eve of her birthday I want to say a lot about her kind words, - this is how the teachers who worked with their head for decades began their story.

– Lyudmila Alekseevna was born in the village. Giblitsy Kasimovsky district Ryazan region. She began her career immediately after graduating from school in 1967. Arriving in Ivanovo, I started working as a nurse at the 1st clinic. She completed nursing courses at the Ivanovo regional health care center and was sent as nurse nursery groups to us, in the city of Yuryevets at the Mir nursery. Then she entered the Kineshma Pedagogical College in absentia, from which she graduated in 1974, receiving the specialty of a teacher kindergarten. In August of the same year, she began working as a teacher in kindergarten No. 5. From December 1985 until her retirement, she worked as the head of MKDOU kindergarten No. 5 “Ryabinka”.

While working as a manager, Lyudmila Alekseevna showed herself to be a responsible, competent leader. She has always been distinguished by the clear organization of her activities and professionalism when working with teachers, children and parents. She has the ability to ensure the functioning and development of the kindergarten in accordance with the requirements public policy in the field of preschool education.

For Lyudmila Alekseevna, a manager is not just a position, but a way of life. As a leader, she did everything to ensure that the kindergarten flourished, the employees worked comfortably, and parents trusted their children without any problems. She is a professional in her field, an initiative, experienced leader who directs the team’s activities towards the realization of creative abilities, the development individual qualities the personality of each employee, so that everyone who at first glance seemed unprepossessing and stereotypical would suddenly reveal an interesting side.

In her preschool institution, she was a real mistress, she knew every corner, all the problems and needs, and they lately it got bigger and bigger. Lyudmila Alekseevna found both the strength and time to solve them, without sparing herself.

And if there was a problem with a lack of staff, she worked for the nurse, and for the caretaker, and for the teacher. Along with all the employees, she cleaned the territory, dug flower beds and planted flowers, participated in the repair of groups and premises of the kindergarten, and even knocked icicles off the roofs herself. Where it is difficult, where there is a problem, there is the owner of the garden. She did everything possible and impossible to ensure that the life of the kindergarten proceeded in a calm and peaceful direction.

Lyudmila Alekseevna has such qualities as: modesty, simplicity, decency, hard work, dedication to her work. Many young colleagues strive to be like her in everything.

“This is a kind-hearted person with whom it is very easy and pleasant to communicate. This is the person about whom they say that “people are drawn to him.” She treats everyone around her with respect, be it an adult or a child. Any conversation begins with the words: “Hello. How are you?" This is not a stock phrase, but a manifestation of interest and care for every close and familiar person. He always listens attentively, encourages, advises, helps with deeds and advice.”

Lyudmila Alekseevna worked well with people. She is from that category of people who control themselves in critical situations and can anticipate and prevent possible conflicts. He can understand and support at any moment, so employees come to work with pleasure, knowing that they are always expected, understood, treated well, valued and respected. As a leader, she combined business activity with the ability to seek pleasure in work, and, together with her subordinates, rejoice at successes and be upset at failures. Supported justified risks when implementing innovations, highlighted the main thing in own work and the activities of the team she leads. She quickly adapted to the changing modern conditions reforming the education system.

“She is a very bright person with an open soul. It’s hard to imagine Lyudmila Alekseevna gloomy, she always smiles and creates good mood to those with whom he communicates.”

She was a frequent guest in groups, children ran up, shared their secrets with her, and she paid attention to everyone. She is distinguished by her boundless love for children. Lyudmila Alekseevna knew every child in the kindergarten, and there were more than a hundred of them.

She still remembers all her students by name. She has always been able to find an individual approach to each child and never remains indifferent to the problems of children and their parents. Children and their parents come to kindergarten with pleasure. Kindergarten graduates are frequent guests, recalling the bright moments of their preschool life.

Teachers and students of preschool educational institutions actively participated in municipal creative exhibitions, competitions, sports events and were awarded numerous diplomas and letters of gratitude.

Lyudmila Alekseevna is efficient in solving a variety of issues, precise in expressing her thoughts, has a creative and deep approach to the implementation of numerous tasks, which has allowed the kindergarten under her leadership to take first place in the ranking among preschool institutions cities.

Needless to say, every subordinate dreams of such a leader: calm, tactful, smart, respectful, ready to help at any moment. The doors of her office were always open, any child could look in and see a smile or hear a kind word.

“Lyudmila Alekseevna gave her entire life to work in our kindergarten, working for more than forty years. Here she earned gratitude, certificates, the title “Veteran of Labor,” and most importantly, the enormous respect of colleagues, parents and children who attended the kindergarten.”

For high professionalism, innovation and pedagogical skill, Lyudmila Alekseevna was repeatedly awarded with diplomas from the education department, the head of the administration of the Yuryevetsky municipal district. In 2001 she was awarded a diploma of honor from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

“She is a very decent and honest person. You can trust her with everything and not for a minute doubt her sincerity.”

We, the kindergarten team, with all our hearts and from all our grateful hearts congratulate Lyudmila Alekseevna on her anniversary. We wish that she would be surrounded by people as kind and bright as herself.

Prepared by M. Krainov

Irina Davydova

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Those days when women only stood at the stove, nursed children and greeted breadwinners from work are gone. Today, no one can be surprised by a female boss. Moreover, the effectiveness of management depends not at all on gender, but on personal leadership qualities, education and experience. But, of course, there are peculiarities in the work of a female chef.

Woman boss - classification of psychological types

Leader - “Man in a Skirt”

Such a boss is stingy with emotions. What she lacks in emotionality she more than makes up for with her authoritarianism in communicating with subordinates and her harsh attitude towards people and affairs. Such a businesswoman will never forget her home " hedgehog gloves”, and there is no smell of democracy at work - exchange of opinions and free expression of one’s thoughts are excluded by default. As a rule, employees of a subtle mental organization flee from such a team. Therefore, open fawning, quarrelsomeness and poking reign in him.
What to remember?

• Learn to be silent and control yourself.
• Do not allow the conversation to move from dialogue to other planes.
• Use the gift of persuasion.

Boss - “Mommy”

The boss from this category is the complete opposite of the previous one. No action is complete without emotions. The main weapon is charm. The employees are almost her children, and friendship and only friendship should reign in the team. Read more. Kindness and emotionality do not contribute to order in the team - there is always chaos there due to the hyper-liberality of the “mommy”.

What to remember?

• Please only contact your boss directly with your problems and suggestions (not your colleagues).
• Omit the technical details in your “presentation” - explain your ideas at the level of emotional painting. If the boss is inspired by your heartfelt speech, the technical details will be resolved by themselves.
• The reprimands of such a boss usually represent women's grievances that are understandable to everyone. And you should respond to them accordingly. That is, turning not to the mind, but to the feelings.

Boss – “Enthusiast”

This situational type of leader is a workaholic woman who lives for success and victory. She will always be the first to arrive and the last to leave. There is paper chaos on her desk. In her memory – often too. Due to the abundance of information, she often forgets - about the specific responsibilities of her subordinates, the deadlines for completing tasks, etc. Compared to previous options, this one is not so bad. In any case, the forgetfulness of your superiors sometimes provides you with an extra day off, and you won’t have any special problems at work.

The heroes of today's publications can be divided into two main groups. One of them is various kinds of symbolic faces. Sex symbols, show symbols, symbols of wealth, power, etc. The press is interested in them as people who personify success. There are few such public people, they have become familiar, and many have become fairly boring to the reader. Their job is to maintain interest general public all sorts of vulgarities.

The second group is more numerous, and its heroes are unknown to anyone. These are different kinds of bosses who wanted to be written about them by a certain date, or just like that. This is done for money. It is clear that only relatives and friends can read such essays, and only one line at a time...

Here the author wonders if there are people who do not belong to the first two categories and who sincerely believe that they have not done something in this life that deserves everyone’s attention, but at the same time it would be interesting to read about them.
There may be many such people, but they are not easy to find. They don't expose themselves. Therefore, when the opportunity arises, you should definitely talk about them.

Zinaida Aleksandrovna Kutuzova

Pediatrician. She's already dead. In old age. The drama of a man who is almost 90 is that there are no longer people in this world who loved or hated him. Therefore, funerals of very old people are always not crowded.

Many people came to say goodbye to Kutuzova (there were no warning measures, except for a small obituary in Magnitogorsk Metal). And these were not grateful patients: for the last quarter of a century she has not worked. These were doctors and nurses, mostly elderly... The fact that the heroine of my essay is not just a doctor, but an honored doctor Russian Federation, former chief pediatrician of the city and chief physician Children's City Hospital No. 3, this is not the main thing. All this was a very long time ago. A catchphrase“No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten” is never confirmed by life... But Kutuzov was remembered by numerous colleagues, despite the fact that most of them had long been in the other world. The author tried to figure out why, and having figured it out, he decided to write this essay.

She was a pronounced workaholic. For this reason, such people are a dime a dozen in our current corporations. Today's workaholic managers are very tough people. Without sparing themselves, they do not spare their subordinates. Kutuzova did not shift her stress onto her subordinates. There is evidence of this. The author communicated in different times with a considerable number of colleagues and former subordinates of Kutuzova, and that’s what’s surprising. Everyone talks about her only with reverence. The opinions of subordinates about other well-known leaders of this level differ diametrically. The author found one colleague of Kutuzova, who believed that he was punished excessively by the head physician, but he also emphasized: “For the cause.” And then he generally said: “A very reasonable woman, it was she who later secured a three-room apartment for me in the Leninsky district.”
Here another quality of the head physician Kutuzova surfaced. This is a complete, absolute incapacity for money-grubbing and even everyday hoarding. All that she left behind, materially, was a tiny Khrushchev apartment she received for a family of five, neglected garden plot Yes, the Order of the Badge of Honor... Although no, also a hockey stick with the autographs of the players of the USSR national team: Kharlamov, Mikhailov, Petrov. She loved hockey and was proud of her personal acquaintance with the national team coach Tarasov.

She always spoke politely to her subordinates and never raised her voice. She was petite in build and pleasant in appearance. Apparently therefore, despite her fierce determination and sacrifice for the interests of the cause, she gave the uninitiated the impression of a soft and compliant person. But the family received a full leadership impulse. She assigned her daughter, a medical student who came to her practice, as a nurse in the infectious diseases department. There was just an outbreak of dysentery and there wasn’t enough staff. The family carried out her orders strictly. Therefore, after graduating from university, my son did not go to graduate school, but to serve in the army. Or rather to the fleet. Border guards. At that time they served in the navy for three years. According to current concepts, such actions of a mother are some kind of parental ruthlessness. Maybe. Only later, she took a vacation several times and went across half the country to visit her son... There was something in her from the old Prince Bolkonsky from “War and Peace”... It is easier for such people to endure pain than shame.

And one last thing. When chief physician Kutuzova turned 55, the very next day she wrote a statement asking for release from leadership position. They didn’t let me go, but she insisted. She stayed in the hospital to work as a simple doctor and worked until she went blind.

And when she was dying and had already fallen into unconsciousness, she kept getting ready to go somewhere to save the child...

This, perhaps, is all the most interesting thing about pediatrician Kutuzova.
Although no, here’s another thing.

Our medicine today desperately needs such Zinaida Aleksandrovna Kutuzovs. So, perhaps, we should name her name for the largest children's hospital in the city, No. 3, which she led for a long time, and which she built and organized its work? I am sure there is no decent person who will say a word against it. And if so, then let this name become a symbol of the fact that a doctor should save people not while he is paid, but while he is breathing.

Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region.

Reviews

This is a breath of conscience - in the shamelessness of the modern race into the void...

No, what I mean is that you are infinitely right, Victor, the press is full of it. What is it replete with? It doesn’t matter, the main thing is that it brings money.

And in the Soviet Union, newspapers and magazines were simply filled with notes and articles about such unknown, but very important and very decent people. This one did such a thing, and this one achieved such achievements, and this one saved so many.

Sketches for portraits of contemporaries

The myth that women can talk about their own kind exclusively in a dismissive and condescending tone was dispelled by the recently published collection “Women about Women.”

The idea to create such a book arose in the bowels of the public organization, the Association of Journalists "Aksinya", which just this year celebrates its 15th anniversary and decided to present itself, its beloved, with such original gift. A few months ago, the head of Aksinya, Irina Mardar, invited members of her organization to write essays about their contemporaries - about those whom they have known for a hundred years or whom they met quite recently, about young or old people who occupy high positions or who have found something modest, but very important for them. their place in life. The main thing is that the person is interesting to the author - no matter what, his biography or its individual episodes, his non-standard views on the world or commitment to conceptual principles that he himself developed, his attitude towards the profession or people. The main thing is that the heroine of the future essay should somehow surprise, amaze, or delight the author, which makes him want to write about her.

Members of the Aksinya organization (and the overwhelming majority are women) responded with enthusiasm to the proposal, especially since journalism is very close to many of them, and it seemed like becoming the authors of the collection, returning to such an almost forgotten genre today as the essay, or just trying it out very tempting. And, speaking in journalistic language, each had plenty of material for this, because there are no uninteresting people, there is a reluctance or inability to “stir up” one’s character, explore his fate, press hidden “springs”.

The presentation of the collection “Women on Women” took place last Friday in the fireplace room of the central city library, and, as often happens with “Aksinya” events, there was a twist. Along with the authors of essays about women, the heroines of the essays were also invited to the meeting. This added general atmosphere holiday... reality. Here they are, our contemporaries, real, not fictitious, not born of creative imagination. Each woman in these sincere stories is truly “ the whole world worthy of everyone's attention", each of them "lives in full height and creates his own personal history in the context of the history of a large country."

“Women about Women” is an anti-glamor publication. A woman here is attracted not by “a minimum of clothing or a maximum of bright feathers on her”, not by involvement in intrigues, scandals, investigations. She is ordinary, and at the same time, when you hold your gaze on her and focus your attention, she turns out to be not so ordinary, but on the contrary, she has invaluable experience and unique personality traits. This idea was emphasized by Irina Mardar, who is also the editor and compiler of the collection, when welcoming the presentation participants. And then each author was given the floor - about the “searches and finds” of his heroine. And the heroines, in turn, expressed their attitude towards the idea of ​​“Aksinya” brought to life.

By the way, the publication of the book became possible thanks to funds from the Global Fund for Women, and also from the publishing house “Old Russians” (Rostov-on-Don), headed by Natalya Startseva, a writer, author of the novels “Into the Light of Love”, “To Me” It doesn’t hurt”, a collection of fairy tales “Tales from the Christmas Tree”. She attended the presentation and declared her love for all the heroines of the collection’s essays, who became close to her during the preparation of the book for publication. And a great gift for everyone gathered in the fireplace room, and there were not only the authors and heroines of the collection, but also members of other public organizations the cities that came to congratulate “Aksinya” on her birthday were books by Natalya Startseva with a personal signature.

All presentation participants received the book “Women about Women” as a gift. And on Monday, several such books were presented to the local history department of the library named after. Pushkin and each branch. Any reader can get acquainted with the collection of sketches about contemporary women.