Education
One school in Beslan is the Ivan and Constantine Kanidis School. It was dedicated in 2010. It was named after teacher Ivan (Yanis) Kanidis and his son; the teacher died during the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004 at School Number One (SNO). The governments of Greece and Norway paid 2.5 million euros through the United Nations Program of Development to have the school built. The school's athletic programmes specialize in football (soccer).
One school in town is the School on Kominterna Street. It replaced SNO, which closed after the hostage crisis. Officials chose not to give the replacement school, located across the street from School Number One, a number. Immediately after SNO closed, classes for children who would have attended SNO were held at School No. 6.
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