Education, culture and healthcare
The first parochial school in Izhma, funded by the peasant Prokopiy Anufriev, was opened in 1820. Subsequently, it will be transformed into a rural school for boys, where a craft class would be opened in 1871. In 1873, a girls’ school was opened.
In 1862, a rural school was opened in Krasnobor and in 1875 also in Mokhcha. In 1885, a parish school was opened in Sizyabsk and in 1894 – in Bolshoye Galovo.
In 1896, the first hospital was opened. The first library was opened in 1900. In 1923, the first kindergarten was opened in Izhma.
In 1921, the department of education, responsible for education and culture, was organized.
In 1927, a vocational technical school was opened in Izhma. It was meant to train personnel for the river fleet. In 1932-1933, the Ukhta Pechora Mining and Oil Technical School operated in the village. In September 1930, a specialized secondary educational institution of the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture of the RSFSR – the Izhma Pechora technical school of reindeer herding and veterinary medicine – was opened in Izhma. Over the years of its existence, it has trained 112 zootechnicians and 155 veterinary paramedics, 99 reindeer herders. In 1931, a factory training school was opened in Shchelyayur, where physical workers were taught.
In 1934, a 6-month nursing course was organized in Shchelyayur. A year later, the courses were converted into a two-year school. In just four years of operation, this school has trained 56 paramedical workers. Those who graduated from the school worked as nurses and paramedics in medical institutions of Izhemsky, Ust-Tsilemsky, and Ust-Usinsky districts. In the same year, the Mokhcha pedagogical college was opened, where primary school teachers were trained. In addition to the residents of Izhemsky rayon, people from Ust-Usinsky, Ust-Tsilemsky, Kozhvinsky, Troitsko-Pechorsky districts studied there.
In 1936, a river technical school was opened in Shchelyayur, where specialists in river transport were trained.
In 1939, a collective farm-state farm theater began its activity in Izhma. During the first year of the theater’s existence, 176 performances were shown. The theater was working until 1941.
In 1940, there were 2 secondary schools, 10 incomplete secondary schools, and 13 primary schools in Izhemsky district. In addition, there were zoo-veterinary, pedagogical, river technical schools, a school for training Soviet workers, a factory school for training shipbuilders and ship repairmen, a trade school for the Pechora Shipping Company, a district collective farm school, and a school for training nurses.
In 1961, a children’s music school was opened in Izhma. In 1965, a folk museum was opened there.
