Editing Interdom (section)

==History==
The idea for the school of this type was put forth by a Swiss activist, [[Mentona Moser]], and she donated part of her inheritance towards the school. Initially it was set near [[Podolsk]] in the village of Vaskino, and it was finished in 1929{{sfn|Balsiger|2005|p=189}}<ref name=vlai/>  but in 1933 a new building was constructed, financed by the textile women of [[Ivanovo]]<ref name=ovo/><ref name=vlai>Vladimir Ivanov, [https://histrf.ru/read/articles/zdes-my-nashli-svoy-dom-internacionalnyy-detskiy-dom-v-ivanove Здесь мы нашли свой дом. Интернациональный детский дом в Иванове]</ref> under the patronage of the Soviet section of [[International Red Aid]] (also known as МОPR, its Russian acronym).<ref name=vlai/> The new building was designed in the [[constructivist architecture|constructivist style]], [[floorplan]]ned as the [[hammer and sickle]].<ref name=vlai/> The boarding school was later named after founder [[Elena Stasova|Elena Dmitrievna Stasova]]. It was conceived as a school for children of [[political repression|repressed]] democratic leaders and activists from all over the world.

About 5,000 children from 85 countries attended the school. Interdom also became home for many children victims of the [[World War II]] [[Siege of Leningrad]] and of the 1986 [[Chernobyl disaster]].<ref name=ovo/>

At the beginning of the 21st century plans to transform the international school into a military academy for cadets (see [[Suvorov Military School]]) were successfully blocked after the children staged a [[hunger strike]] and wrote a letter to President [[Vladimir Putin]]. It lost its "international" status, but the association of the graduates successfully appealed to restore it<ref name=ovo/> and now the official name of the school is «Международная школа «Интердом» имени Е.Д. Стасовой» under the aegis of the federal state enterprise "Центр международного сотрудничества Министерства просвещения Российской Федерации"<ref>[https://interdomivanovo.ru/ Interdom website]</ref>