He stated that he would support such a decision.

According to the scientist, with the arrival at school, children should have an idea about the country in which they live, the history of their family and city.

“It seems to me that it is a good thing that from the age of seven, from the time they come to school, children learn not only to read and write and count, but also to learn their own history.

As a historian, I support this initiative, ”NSN quotes Petrov.

Leonid Katsva, a history teacher and author of textbooks in this discipline, on the contrary, said that no electives were possible in the first grade.

According to the interlocutor of the radio station "Moscow speaking", in the first grade, children learn to read and are not ready to take complex information seriously.

“As for electives, this is nonsense ... What's the story?

If there are some historical plots in the reading lessons, well, let them be,” he said.

As the head of the Ministry of Education of Russia Sergey Kravtsov said earlier, he "decided that historical education would begin in schools from the first grade."

He explained that in the primary grades of schools there will be historical education, and not compulsory history lessons.