Boarding School No. 45 The boarding school with physics-mathematics and chemistry-biology specialization was organized by the decree of
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union No. 905 (23 August 1963) "on organization of specialized boarding schools with the physics-mathematics and chemistry-biology profiles" Works on establishing of a physics-mathematics boarding school at Leningrad State University started before signing of the Council of Ministers Decree in 1963 spring. 120 students were recruited and sent to four classes. The plans were to use Boarding School No 7 on
Vasilyevsky Island. After signing of the decree the plans were expanded and included establishing of an independent boarding school. The champions for organization of the new school was mathematician at the time the leader of
komsomol organization of the Leningrad State University, and the
rector of the University, mathematician
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov The new boarding school used building of a disestablished boarding school No 45 of
Zhdanovsky District, Leningrad. The office supplies inherited from that school determined the unofficial name of the new school: Physics-Mathematics School No 45 or
PhMSh 45. According to the 2017 rating by Russian Department of Education "Top 500 School" the school is 12th in Russia and second in Saint Petersburg (after
Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239) At the present time there are about 500 pupils are studying in the school. ==References==