UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. An additional building for Kindergarten 119 opened with a solemn ceremony in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy today. The new kindergarten extension will invite in more than three hundred children aged three to five as soon as January 9.

The opening ceremony was attended by Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg for Social Policy Dmitri Baranov, Head of Yekaterinburg Council’s Education Department Ekaterina Sibirtseva, Deputy Head of District Leninsky Council for Social Issues Elena Beruashvili, and a number of Yekaterinburg Duma deputies.

According to Head of Kindergarten 119 Olga Mironova, the building is big enough for three hundred children (ten groups, including two for children in the 2-3 age group). The kindgeratent has a kitchen unit, a medical unit, a laundry room, some APO sections, rooms to house the children’s groups, a gym, a music hall, a speech-language therapist’s office, and a staff training office. The place has a sports playground with up-to-date coating outside.

‘Like the existing building, this new kindergarten facility will be used to ensure children’s development based on the long-standing folk traditions. 330 new children are expected to come here after the New Year break; the enrollment process is already over,’ Mironova said.