Elizaveta Lastochkina

Elizaveta Guryevna Lastochkina (; 5 June 1869 – 1 January 1967) was a Russian teacher of the deaf. Hero of Labor, Honored School Teacher of the RSFSR (1944).

Early life and education Lastochkina was born in Shusha in the family of a state councilor. In 1887, she graduated from the Kazan Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium pedagogical class with a gold medal.

Career In 1889, Lastochkina became a teacher at the Kazan School for the Deaf and Mute. In 1894, she was appointed head of the Kazan School for the Deaf and Mute.

Since 1931, Lastochkina has been in charge of the educational department of the Kazan School for the Deaf and Mute. She is the organizer of the Kazan Society of the Deaf and Mute. Since 1954 Lastochkina has been working in the Kazan School for the Deaf as a methodologist-consultant. In 1967, an urn with her ashes was buried in the grave of her grandfather, Archpriest Guriy Lastochkin, at the Arskoe Cemetery in Kazan to the right of the altar of the Yaroslavl Wonderworkers Church. Lastochkina developed the oral method of teaching the deaf. Thanks to her, pupils began to communicate verbally with others. Lastochkina was involved in developing approaches to the upbringing and education of deaf children. Lastochkina ran the school during the years of the revolution and two world wars. Today, the school named after Lastochkina is in a modern building with the necessary educational and methodological production complex. In memory of the founder, a monument to Lastochkina was erected in the school courtyard.

Awards and honors

Hero of Labor (1936). Cavalier of two Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Honored School Teacher of the RSFSR (1944).