School No. 1 Pyotr Rumyantsev

School No. 1 stands on strada 31 August 1989 in the centre of Cahul a two-storey Socialist Modernist building in rendered concrete. The school is one of five secondary institutions active in Cahul and bears the name of Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky, who was a Russian field marshal whose most celebrated victory was fought near the very ground on which the school stands. On 1 August 1770, Rumyantsev's army of 32,000 engaged an Ottoman force of 150,000 on the Kagul river, inflicting around 20,000 casualties at a cost of fewer than 400 Russian dead. The battle effectively ended the campaign of 1770 and won Rumyantsev his honorific surname, Zadunaisky — Beyond the Danube. The decision to name the city's first school after Rumyantsev is a Soviet-era framing: the battle was folded into the narrative of Russian military glory.