76% of Yekaterinburg high school students are against the introduction of the defense industrial complex course

The editors of the Yekaterinburg newspaper "School Life" conducted a survey of high school students about their attitude to the introduction of lessons on the basics of Orthodox culture. The survey involved more than 600 students in grades 10-11 from 25 schools in Yekaterinburg. with reference to Interfax As reported by Portal-Credo.ru , "to the question "Do you want to introduce a lesson in the defense industry?" 76% of the surveyed schoolchildren answered negatively, 24% - positively. At the same time, according to the results of the survey, the majority - 76% of high school students cities believe in the existence of God, and 24% do not believe, considering themselves atheists.

Of the total number of survey participants, 62% profess Orthodoxy, 7% Muslims, 2% Catholicism, 1% Judaism, 1% Buddhism, 3% another religion.

Sources

• According to the results of a sociological survey, the majority of high school students in Yekaterinburg are against the introduction of the lesson "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" // Portal-Credo.ru. 2006. September 21. (With reference to Interfax.)