# Russia's Traditional Education Program for Girls

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118205695367721453
- Source account: [@ianmiles](https://x.com/ianmiles)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:16
- Published: 2026-11-05
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls) How is Russia creating a new generation of trad wives?

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=3) In these classrooms, girls as young as 10 are being taught how to become wives and mothers.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=9) They're learning floristry, cooking, and dancing.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=12) They wear matching blue dresses, white collars, and stockings.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=15) Trousers are not allowed. The traditional education of girls course was founded two years ago in Udmurtia, a region in central Russia, for girls aged 10 to 16.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=25) It began in four schools, and has since expanded to other parts of the country.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=29) Its founder, Olga Nogovaltseva, says wearing dresses every day reminds girls to be feminine, well-mannered, and gentle.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=36) Each girl receives a brooch bearing the letter D, which represents two values promoted by the program, maidenhood and virtue.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=44) At an initiation ceremony, they officially become noble maidens, but this is also part of a wider push by Vladimir Putin to promote traditional family values.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=53) Russia has been facing population decline, and the Kremlin has introduced financial incentives to encourage women to have more children.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=60) It has also restricted the promotion of childlessness and LGBT identities.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=64) The program is optional, but it has received state certification, opening the way for wider expansion.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QlsZKxyoMkTu/en/russia-s-traditional-education-program-for-girls?t=70) So are these schools simply teaching domestic skills, or helping shape the family life that the Kremlin wants to promote?