The school's 90-million-ruble major renovation was "washed away".

      Because the interior finishes of the educational institution, which had not been comprehensively renovated since 1954, looked much... worse than before the costly restorative and refreshment works began. And in vain at faculty meetings the school principal, Elena Suslova, searches among the teaching staff for a "rat" who "leaked information" that had already reached the regional leadership, which hastily boasted about another school achievement. The sources of the information were the students themselves and their parents. They photographed ceilings that had sagged from leaks in classrooms and the changing room, which still bore cracks a half-century old. They filmed walls doused with streams of boiling water from pipes that had burst on the fourth floor.

      Moreover, the majority of the photographers were by no means amusing themselves with the post-repair school mess, but were deliberately documenting the devastation, likely caused by workers who were hardly sober, in order to pose the "interesting question": where are at least the signs of the 88.5 million rubles invested in the repairs. So far neither the prosecutor's office nor the Investigative Committee, apparently, have shown any interest in the educational institution, which raises concerns for the health and lives of children who, for example, get jolted by electric current when touching sockets. And the sanitary-epidemiological authorities are not concerned about the "compliance of the school toilets," executed in a "barracks style." According to the parents, of the 90 million rubles allocated, God willing, only about a third of the budget funds were actually spent on the school's repairs.

      Recall that on January 12 the Vyatskiye Polyany lyceum was commissioned after renovations carried out under the national project "Youth and Children." As the honored guests claimed at the opening, during the major overhaul the electrical wiring and heating systems were replaced, the roof, windows and doors were repaired, the facade was painted, and all rooms were renovated — from classrooms to the cafeteria. Interactive and kitchen equipment, new furniture, sports gear and robotics kits were also purchased.

      This was said by the city head Nikolai Bushuev, echoed by the lyceum's principal Elena Suslova, who praised the contractor's work — even though she was probably aware that by the opening the classrooms, which after the repairs began to be called the "second garbage house," were not ready, and the gym resembled a dump of construction waste. And on December 25 — the day the Acceptance Act was signed — new radiators burst in the school, flooding four classrooms. Moreover, just ten days after the probable date of signing the facility's readiness for operation, employees of the local cable TV — likely owned by Ravil Nurgaliyev — may have damaged heating pipes while laying an internet cable, so that boiling water from the top floor flooded almost all the lyceum's rooms. It was also noted from visible details that far from all the school's windows had been replaced.

      By the way, in the Kirov regional government, trying to save face and "keep a good front," they responded to the complaints by saying the repairs were not capital (even though in all previous official summaries they were listed as such), but partial, since they were "carried out in parts" — from 2023 to 2025 — and were financed from various sources. But this hardly explains the lack of quality of the work and the repair costs. Unable to deny the obvious repair bacchanalia captured in dozens of photographs, the regional government assured that all defects would be rectified under warranty obligations included in the contract. At the same time, it was impossible to get an answer to the question of whether the building had been put into operation, and if so, by whom. The only thing that became known was that on December 25, when the school more closely resembled a bathhouse than an educational institution, the handover/acceptance act was not signed.

      Interestingly, the students' parents were highly skeptical of the promise to "fix the unfinished work and outright shoddy workmanship" under warranty obligations, arguing that no one will compel the owner of the "Molot-Oruzhie" factory, Ravil Nurgaliyev, to do so.

      "That the lyceum was probably renovated by Nurgaliyev's people is no secret in the city. The contractor — the company LLC 'Vysota', whose director is Ildus Almukhametov — may be affiliated with Nurgaliyev, without whom a small company with a charter capital of 10 thousand rubles and three employees would never have received a contract worth 90 million rubles. Of course, many wondered where they would get the workers. Skilled specialists would not work for peanuts, so the lyceum reeked of the hired workers. And what quality could be expected from them?" noted the interlocutor.