School of young chemists in Ivanovo

USSR. Ivanovo. Valery Nikolaevich Prorokov, a lecturer at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Ivanovo Chemical-Technological Institute (IKhTI) (right, foreground), and young chemists, ninth-graders from schools #46 and #18, Svetlana Nikolskaya and Aleksandr Pikunov (left to right), during an experiment in the chemical laboratory of the school for young chemists. The school's curriculum is close to that of a university within the framework of the supplementary education system. Isaak Dynin/TASS