The postcard depicts the former men’s Gymnasium of the city of Tetyushi. The Institution was opened on September 23, 1912, on a public initiative. Merchants and patrons Kolsanovs helped to construct a two-story stone building made of red brick with a green roof. A solemn liturgy was held in the cathedral church in honor of the opening of the gymnasium, which was attended by students from all educational institutions of the city. A Holy Cross procession passed from the church through all of Tetyushi to the Gymnasium building.

Merchant Nikolai Kolsanov made a speech at the opening:

Contemporaries recalled one curious situation that happened during the ceremony. The city mayor Nikolai Polosukhin in his speech, instead of “We have built a grandiose building, ” said, “graceful building” (words “grandiose” and “graceful” sound similar in Russian), which amused the audience.

The Board of Trustees invited Alexander Volochkov, an experienced teacher who had been teaching Latin at various gymnasiums since 1889, after graduating from Kazan University. Classes started simultaneously in the first and second grade: boys of different ages entered the school.

The first graduation was supposed to take place in 1919. However, by that time, it was no longer a gymnasium but a Soviet secondary school. In June 1920, by the decision of the Tetyushi district executive committee, the gymnasium building was transferred to pedagogical courses.

In December 1921, pedagogical courses were renamed as the pedagogical technical school by order of the Tatglavprofobrazovanie (The main committee of vocational education). On January 7, 1937, the People’s Commissar of Education of the RSFSR Anatoly Lunacharsky issued an order to rename the pedagogical technical schools into pedagogical colleges with a three-year period of study, and since 1948-with a four — year one.

In 2010, the pedagogical school was renamed into the Pedagogical College. In 2015, the college was redesignated into the GAPOU “Tetyushi State College of Civil Protection”.