One of the outcomes of the federal project “Developing a Technology for Overcoming the Risks of Adolescence: School Theatre Based on Role Experimentation” implemented at Secondary School No. 4 under the auspices of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Contemporary Childhood (MGPPU), was a costumed guided tour conducted by 8th-grade students Vasilissa Yudina and Anna Morozova.
The tour was dedicated to the wartime heroism of medical workers during the Great Patriotic War. At its center was the symbolic figure of a young nurse from Kashira, named Zoya. Together with Zoya, museum visitors—6th-grade students—immersed themselves in the atmosphere of November–December 1941, learning how medical institutions were organized during wartime, why sanitary and epidemiological control in the city was critical, and how ordinary citizens supported doctors and the wounded.
The documentary material was researched and prepared by the young guides under the supervision of Tatiana A. Poskakalova, research fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Contemporary Childhood. The text of the tour was based on the works of Kashira local historians and civic activists A. A. Golubev and V. F. Dudov. Emotional and moving accents were added through the wartime poetry of Yulia Drunina and Olga Berggolts. The theme resonated with the teenagers’ personal interests: Vasilissa is fascinated by the history of her native region, while Anna dreams of becoming a nurse.
An important component of the educational environment was the School Museum of Military Glory, which preserves the memory of tragic days through exhibits collected by school staff and students. This year, the museum’s archive was also enriched with video materials created by 8th graders about their relatives—participants and witnesses of the Second World War—produced as part of the same federal project.

The audience of the tour noted that they were particularly interested in hearing about the role of newly developed antibiotics during the war and their use in treating the wounded, the heroic defense of Kashira by the cavalry of General P. A. Belov, and the everyday lives and contributions of ordinary townspeople to the front under conditions of limited medical resources.
Thus, the positive experience of creating guided tours by the students themselves, and holding activities in the museum space, demonstrated the relevance and effectiveness of this methodical approach—both for the young guides and for their audiences.

Source — Secondary School No. 4