🎒 Happy Knowledge Day! The OKA Agency team extends its warmest wishes to students, teachers, parents, and educators as the new academic year begins! 🌟 Knowledge Day is one of Russia’s most cherished and heartfelt traditions. Across the country, schools mark the occasion with ceremonial assemblies: children arrive carrying flowers for their teachers, the first school bell rings, and first-graders embark on an exciting new chapter in their lives. It is also a special day for families. Parents gather at the school gates for photographs, present teachers with bouquets, and accompany their children to their very first lesson — traditionally, a Lesson of Peace, held in schools across the country. This year, 517 educational institutions across Nizhny Novgorod are welcoming children and young people: 180 schools, 314 kindergartens, and 23 institutions offering extracurricular education. Around 160,000 schoolchildren will take their seats in classrooms, including approximately 14,000 first-graders taking their very first steps into school life! 🎈 May the new academic year be filled with discovery, inspiration, meaningful learning, wonderful experiences, and new friendships. Here’s to a bright and successful year ahead! 🍂📚 ✔Subscribe to the OKA Agency: We make you fall in love with Nizhny Novgorod More information on our website! Follow us on: 📱 Instagram* 📱 X 📱 YouTube 📱 TikTok *Owned by Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation #WeAreOka