
The textbooks will differ significantly from the current ones; it is possible to issue contour maps and atlases as a set
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The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation is working to create new unified state textbooks in various subjects, including geography.
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The new unified state textbooks on geography will differ significantly from the current ones.
The Ministry of Education is working on the issue of creating contour maps and atlases that can be included with textbooks.
MOSCOW, September 24 - RIA Novosti. The new unified state textbooks on geography will differ significantly from those that schoolchildren use today, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation Olga Koludarova said on Thursday.
“Now we are writing all the state textbooks. Geography, for example, you will be surprised, it will be completely different, not the geography that is studied in schools today,” Koludarova said at a meeting of the literary club “What to read?! Meanings” at the national center “Russia”.
She noted that the Ministry of Education is working on the issue of creating contour maps and atlases that can be included with textbooks.

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