www.vshkole.ru and similar websites


When Shkola aired, it launched a website called www.vshkole.ru which was some kind of social media revolving around the series where the audience could login and watch the episodes online and interact with other fans of similar ages. The website offered other advantages like discussion forums, access to backstage photos and videos, conversations with the actors and actresses since they had active profiles made specifically for the website and it even had a 'virtual classroom'.

Here is the evidence that this website existed:

  • First, in episode 57, at 16:45 Epifanov is using his computer and you can see he's looking at the series website. In the screeshot we have a glimpse of what the layout for the main page would have look like (I apologize in advance for the quality of the image).



  • In pinterest you will find multiple photos of the series, and in a handful of them you will see the watermark 'www.vshkole.ru', which implies that the photos came from the website. Here you have some examples.

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  • In some 'behind the scene' videos available in youtube (we'll talk more about that in the next entries), you can clearly see the same watermark as the pictures above trough the videos and in the end of each one of them.


    • Ok, since we have stablished that the website existed, I can start discussing the details.

    You see, if we consult the Wayback machine we'll see that the domain runned since December 19th, 2007 until July 23rd, 2013 with the most captures being set in the year 2010. Before 2010, the domain belonged to the Municipal Educational Institution: Rural gymnasium of Vnukovo. Then, if we look past the 2010, we'll see that the last time the website was up (or at least archived) was August 28th, 2011, after that, the Wayback machine will redirect you to another site under the direction of 'writeme.im'. So, it's safe to conclude that www.vshkole.ru wasn't up for a long time.


    Here it's a screenshot of the last capture of the website. You can see that the green banner with the title and the layout match the screenshot of Epifanov's computer.

    The problem with www.vshkole.ru is that is not very well conservated so there's a ton of material that used to be there and now we don't have access. For example, the whole "Interview" section has 16 videos whose contents we know nothing about.