Gorchakov School

The Gorchakov School in Pavlovsk is located in the former Elizabeth and Maria Shelter, built in 1908–1909 according to the design of architect A. V. Druker, where a hospital was located during the Soviet era. Students are offered extracurricular programs, including sports games, swimming, dancing, fine arts, music, as well as clubs for mathematics, physics, history, astronomy, and the German language. Every school student writes a research paper on a chosen topic, and a 205-millimeter Meade LX90-ACF telescope is installed in the astronomical observatory, which was opened in 2005 on the tower. The school holds traditional sports competitions, the Gorchakov Pentathlon, annually, and the grading system was developed by a physics teacher and candidate of pedagogical sciences, V. V. Voronov.