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The Finnish-Russian School is Finland's largest general education school specialized in teaching Russian language and culture. The school is a comprehensive school offering preschool, basic and upper secondary education. A new school building was completed in autumn 2021 in Helsinki's South Kaarela. The school operates under the Finnish National Agency for Education and has about 700 pupils and students.
Field trips and study tours: The school runs field trips, culture trips and study tours for students from elementary through high school. In the past two years, as travel resumed after the pandemic years, trips have been organized to Finland, to the Baltic states and the Czech Republic, with other European destinations possible in the future. Comenius and UNESCO: The school has participated in multiple Comenius projects (2002–2005; 2007–2009; 2009–2011) and in 2014–2015 participated in a Nordplus project. UNESCO ASPnet and global themes: The school has been a UNESCO ASPnet school since 1980, promoting world citizenship and sustainable development, and participates in ASPnet activities and regional UNESCO initiatives including the UN-related days and projects. The school collaborates with partner schools across the Baltic states and Europe and with other language schools in Helsinki, such as the Helsinki French–Finnish School and Helsinki Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu, as well as other Russian-language schools in Finland.
Vanhempainyhdistys operates on voluntary basis and welcomes all guardians of the school's pupils and preschoolers. The association has no membership fee. Its goal is to increase home–school cooperation and to enhance the school's community spirit, directing its funds to support pupils' language and culture trips and a scholarship fund, and to assist with school purchases—most recently providing school hoodies for clubs and sports teams. The association organizes activities as needed and participates in school events, and aims to raise the school's visibility as a language school. It is a member of the Finnish Parent Association; meetings are open to all interested, and information is shared via Wilma and the Facebook group. All parents are warmly welcome to participate.
The Finnish-Russian School is a state-funded bilingual institution in Helsinki offering preschool, basic and upper secondary education with instruction in Finnish and Russian. In basic education, the school follows the national core curriculum, while Russian language and culture are studied to a significantly greater extent. The elementary curriculum is published as part of the school's materials, and the upper-secondary program follows LOps 2021 Lukion opinto-opas for the 2025–2026 academic year. The school welcomes 700 pupils. It operates in a new building completed in autumn 2021 in Etelä-Kaarela. Facilities include a central auditorium seating 200, with a stage and audio-visual equipment, plus a small multipurpose hall for indoor activities and a separate meeting room with hybrid meeting capability. After the school day, learners may join theatre, visual arts and chess clubs, participate in Erasmus exchanges, and engage in student council activities. After-school care runs for younger pupils in a supervised program.
