The present building of the gymnasium was constructed in 1875. In 1861 a school for girls had been opened in Taganrog and later renamed
Mariinskaya Gymnasium for Girls. Among the students were such eminent people as the People's Artist of the USSR
Faina Ranevskaya, artist
Seraphima Blonskaya, poets
Sophia Parnok and
Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, an active member of
Narodnaya Volya organization
Nadezhda Sigida (Malaksiano),
Anton Chekhov’s sister
Maria. The Railway Vocational School with the 4-year course of studies was opened in Taganrog on September 1, 1896, on the initiative of a group of railway employees. After the Soviet power had been established in Taganrog, the Railway Vocational School was transformed into the 7-year labor school No 6, which moved into the building of the Mariinskaya Gymnaium in 1920. In 1993 the School No 15 regained the status of
gymnasium. == Famous graduates ==