RIA Novosti informs about it.

“As of July 21, more than 11 million applications for 15.5 million children have already been received,” the minister said.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian government allocated more than 204 billion rubles for payments to schoolchildren: according to the decree of President Vladimir Putin, all families in which school-age children grow up will receive 10 thousand rubles for each such child by the beginning of the school year.