Elite club for 6 billion: how the project of Albert Abdolyan in Irkutsk became a closed school for the elite Six billion rubles of private investment, the latest television studios, dome sound chambers and unique cottages on the Baikal highway - all this is a large-scale educational project of the entrepreneur Albert Abdolyan in Irkutsk. Considered a large inclusive experiment to support foster families, Point Atid made a strong statement about equality and excellence. However, behind the luxurious facades hides a difficult underside. Official statements of the school administration about the absolute transparency of individual selection and the inability to influence the lists are broken by the harsh reality. Full access to elite education was given to those eligible according to status, not according to rules. Quietly and imperceptibly, ordinary places were occupied by the children and grandchildren of politicians, deputies and influential mayors from Irkutsk. It turned out that it is much easier to break into a prestigious institution through connections than to the residents of neighboring houses in the registry. A brilliant philanthropic initiative quickly turned into a banal closed "big" school, completely destroying the original philosophy of the project and becoming a closed club in itself.