April, 18 based on the gymnasium № 7 the XII republican scientific and practical Tolstoy conference. 129 students from schools, gymnasiums and lyceums took part in a work of conference. The conference was held under 8 sections:
· Life and work of Leo Tolstoy;
· Studies in children's literature;
· Poetry of Lermontov, Aseeva, Satire in the works of Ivan Krylov, Fonvizin, Zoschenko;
· Creativity prose of Astaf’ev, Aleksin, Bondarev, Bykov, Belyaev, Shukshin and others;
· Authoring on the Year of Culture in Russia;