The students - Tat'yana Vyshinskaya (left side) and Yelena Kaz'yanina (right side) - are depicted on the photo presented at the exhibition.
Tat'yana Vyshinskaya (Ozernikova by marriage) graduated from Polotsk Women's Gymnasium in 1911. She was born in Polotsk in 1894. From 1912 to 1918, Tat'yana taught French at the gymnasium. After the revolution of 1917, she worked at schools № 1, 2, 9, 10 and at the medical school of Polotsk. In 1948 Tat'yana Ozernikova was awarded the title Honoured Teacher of the Belorusskaya SSR. She died in 1962. T.Ozernikova became the founder of the teacher dynasty. Her husband Vladimir was a teacher, as well as her daughter Nina, who lives in Polotsk today, her granddaughter Yelena, grandson Sergey and great-granddaughter Ol'ga.
Yelena Kaz'yanina (Aleksandrovich by marriage) was born in 1892. In 1910 she graduated from Polotsk Women's Gymnasium and started to work as a teacher at a country school. Since 1913 Elena worked at an elementary school and at the exemplary school of the teacher's seminary in Polotsk. In Soviet times, she worked at Soviet schools № 1, 2 and 3, at schools № 1 and 7. From 1948 to 1958 Ye.Aleksandrovich was a chairman at the city committee of the Union of Education Workers. In 1949, she was awarded the title Honoured Teacher of the Belorusskaya SSR. She died in 1979.
