So it already happened, then again another "grape", and so on in a circle when in the Soviet Union boys and girls were separated into different schools: an experiment of 1943-1954. At the height of the war, in the summer of 1943, a large-scale educational experiment was launched in the Soviet Union: boys and girls were taught separately in the big cities. On July 16, the Council of People's Commissars issued Resolution No. 789, and starting with the new school year, separate schools began operating in 81 cities, and later their number increased to about 150. At the same time, in villages and small towns, everything remained the same - children still studied together, so only some of the schoolchildren fell within the scope of the experiment. Officially, this was explained by the fact that gender equality in education had already been achieved, and joint education creates "difficulties of a pedagogical and organizational nature". The authorities wanted to take into account the peculiarities of physical development, strengthen discipline and eliminate "not always healthy relations" between the sexes. But historians also see other motives: for example, it made more sense to introduce the topic "military affairs" in schools only with young men. In addition, 1943 generally became a period of turning to traditions - then the shoulder straps returned to the army, the attitude to the church softened, and in general they relied on familiar gender roles. The plans sounded ambitious: they wanted to give the boys more practice in physics and chemistry, improved military training, and the girls - the basics of pedagogy, handicrafts, hygiene and child care. Even the uniforms were almost returned to the gymnasium model. But reality quickly made its own adjustments. There was a catastrophic shortage of premises: sometimes one school was divided into two by an ordinary plywood partition, and the classrooms filled up to 45 people. There were also not enough teachers, and maintaining two schools in one place was considerably more expensive.

So it already happened, then again another "grape", and so on in a circle when in the Soviet Union boys and girls were separated into different schools: an experiment of 1943-1954. At the height of the war, in the summer of 1943, a large-scale educational experiment was launched in the Soviet Union: boys and girls were taught separately in the big cities. On July 16, the Council of People's Commissars issued Resolution No. 789, and starting with the new school year, separate schools began operating in 81 cities, and later their number increased to about 150. At the same time, in villages and small towns, everything remained the same - children still studied together, so only some of the schoolchildren fell within the scope of the experiment. Officially, this was explained by the fact that gender equality in education had already been achieved, and joint education creates "difficulties of a pedagogical and organizational nature". The authorities wanted to take into account the peculiarities of physical development, strengthen discipline and eliminate "not always healthy relations" between the sexes. But historians also see other motives: for example, it made more sense to introduce the topic "military affairs" in schools only with young men. In addition, 1943 generally became a period of turning to traditions - then the shoulder straps returned to the army, the attitude to the church softened, and in general they relied on familiar gender roles. The plans sounded ambitious: they wanted to give the boys more practice in physics and chemistry, improved military training, and the girls - the basics of pedagogy, handicrafts, hygiene and child care. Even the uniforms were almost returned to the gymnasium model. But reality quickly made its own adjustments. There was a catastrophic shortage of premises: sometimes one school was divided into two by an ordinary plywood partition, and the classrooms filled up to 45 people. There were also not enough teachers, and maintaining two schools in one place was considerably more expensive.