internat4.narod.ru was the website of Nizhny Novgorod's Sormovo boarding school No. 4, hosted on the free Narod.Ru hosting service and devoted to the history of the school and its graduates[2]. In the nn.ru catalogue the site was listed under the name "Sormovo Boarding School No. 4" with the description: from 1960 to 1998 the institution operated as a physics-and-mathematics boarding school for children from rural districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, and from 1998 as general education boarding school No. 4[1]. Judging by web-archive snapshots, the site existed from at least November 2003 to February 2004[1][2].

Content and sections

The home page bore the title "Sormovo General Basic Education Boarding School No. 4, Nizhny Novgorod" and combined material for pupils and for graduates. In November 2003 the site featured the sections: "Nizhny Novgorod Regional Public Organization of Graduates of Sormovo Boarding School No. 4", "Harbor of Childhood", "Guest Book", "Notice Board for Graduates", "Photo Album 2003", "Site Map", "Forum", "Anthem", "For the Teacher", the project "Open Lesson of Tolerance", the project "Gifted Children — Russia's Future", "Um@nik Hobby Conference", "Native Home", and "School Museum of the History of the Holocaust", as well as a separate page "Harbor of Childhood for the Graduating Class of 1973" with an explanatory note[1].

By February 2004 the site's structure had changed: the "For Pupils!!!" section and the "Guest Book" forum remained, but the links to the graduates' organization and to the forum as a separate item disappeared, while new ones appeared: "Nizhny Novgorod Regional Organizing Committee", "Electronic Computer Science Textbooks", and the "International Distance Mathematical Olympiad 'Third Millennium'" — as the home page reported in this version[2]. The sections "Photo Album 2003", "Site Map", "Anthem", "For the Teacher", "Um@nik Hobby Conference", "Native Home", and "School Museum of the History of the Holocaust" were present in both surviving versions of the site[1][2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru catalogue (the /rub/ section), where it was recorded with a rating of 37.0 and a composite visibility score of 51.2[1]. As part of Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day the site received 0 votes[1]. For more on how Nizhny Novgorod catalogues and rating systems of that era worked, see the article on the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating and the general article on the Nizhny Novgorod Internet; on the counter itself, see Counter.nn.ru.

Fate of the domain

The last recorded web-archive snapshot of the site is dated August 31, 2004[1]. The subsequent fate of the domain internat4.narod.ru cannot be traced from the available data.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2004 (archive)