MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

OF THE KARACHAY-CHERKESS REPUBLIC

369000, Cherkessk, Lenin Sq. Tel. 5-40-64. Fax (878-22) 5-70-07

No. ___ dated 27 08 2002

To the Deputy of the State Duma
of the Federal Assembly of the RF
Kovalyov S.A.

Ref. No. KS - 2323 dated 31 07 2002

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, in response to your inquiry regarding "...whether Gochiyayev A.Sh. studied at secondary school No. 3 in the city of Karachayevsk," reports the following data found in the school archive:

• In the final grade sheet of the class register (pp. 48, 49, 50) for the 1st grade of the 1977-1978 academic year, under No. 10, Gochiyayev Mur. is recorded (the name is recorded in abbreviated form), grades for the year: four "3"s, three "4"s;
• In the general information records of the class register for the 7th "b" grade of the 1983-1984 academic year, under No. 8, Gochiyayev Achemez Shagabanovich is recorded, born 28.09.1970, Karachay, mother: Chagilova Totay Azretovna—operator at the city dairy plant, home address: Kurdzhieva St. 14, apt. 39, tel. 44-71, grades for the year: two "3"s, seven "4"s, four "5"s, behavior—"satisfactory," promoted to the 8th grade;
• In the general information records of the class register for the 10th grade (graduating) of the 1986-1987 academic year, under No. 7, Gochiyayev Achemez Shagabanovich is recorded with the same information about him as for the 7th "b" grade, graduation grades: three "3"s, four "4"s, one "5", behavior for the 1st half-year—"unsatisfactory," graduated from school, protocol No. 8 dated 26.06.87 (pedagogical council).

No other documents containing data on Achemez Shagabanovich Gochiyayev were found in the school archive.

An unsatisfactory grade for behavior in the first half of the 10th grade was given to A. Sh. Gochiyayev (according to the former class teacher of this class, L. A. Grechko) for drinking alcoholic beverages followed by a violation of public order during a field trip outside the city of Karachayevsk.

Minister of Education and Science
of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic [signature] A. T. Afanasyeva