Alekseevskaya Women's Gymnasium

Alekseevskaya Women's Gymnasium was a women's gymnasium that existed in Taganrog, Russian Empire from 1911 to 1917.

Alekseevskaya Women's Gymnasium
Алексеевская женская гимназия
General information
Location	Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia
Coordinates	47°12′20.016″N 38°56′22.992″E
Design and construction
Architect(s)	A. Ginzburg

History

The history of the Alekseevskaya Women's Gymnasium dates back to September 1905, when a note by P. P. Filevsky (the first historian of the city of Taganrog) was sent to the City Duma, in which he substantiated the urgent need to establish another female gymnasium in Taganrog. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Mariinskaya Gymnasium was overcrowded, and up to 50 students were enrolled in the classrooms . The City Duma supported Filevsky's appeal and in 1906 decided to open the second women's gymnasium in Taganrog.

The Second Women's Gymnasium was opened only in November 1911, when pupils began to recruit it. The gymnasium for more than three years was located in a rented private house. The author of the project was the architect A. Ginzburg.

Because of the First World War the Mitava Women's Gymnasium was evacuated from the Baltic in Taganrog and girls from Austrian Galicia, whose parents died during the war were also placed the Mitava Women's Gymnasium. So it was connected with the second female gymnasium in Taganrog transferred to the new building under the general name "Alekseevskaya" in honor of the heir, Tsarevich Alexei. Alekseevskaya women's gymnasium existed for a short time. During the Soviet times, the building housed alternately a school, an orphanage, and an Agricultural Technical School.

From 1928 to 1933, the building of the Alekseevskaya Gymnasium housed the natural-historical department of the Taganrog Museum of Local History. At the moment in the building is located Campus "A" of the Engineering and Technology Academy of the Southern Federal University.