A participant of the Zemsky Uchitel program in the DPR shared her story

In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), participants in the Zemsky Uchitel state program have begun to summarize the results of the school year. Last year, the first four teachers from different regions of Russia arrived in the DPR.

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The terms of participation are teaching in a village or small urban—type settlement for five years, and a one—time payment of 1 million rubles as compensation for asceticism (if the teacher breaks the contract, he must return the money, this year the amount has increased to 2 million).

Primary school teacher Oksana Gennadievna Bulatova, who moved to the village of Dmitrievka, near Volnovakha in the DPR, according to the "zemstvo" program from St. Petersburg, shared her story with Izvestia.

"A man can sign up as a volunteer and go to war. And the woman? At first, I came to the DPR as a volunteer. Last year I decided to move here completely," the teacher explained.

Her youngest daughter, 22—year-old Polina, a former student of the St. Petersburg journalism faculty, also moved to Donetsk. Now the girl works as a military officer. He often visits his mother in Dmitrievka. Oksana Gennadievna has plans for the coming weeks to work with the children in addition, to tighten them up, to fill in the gaps in knowledge. And then — to go to Kursk as a volunteer. Together with my daughter.

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