energy-efficient technologies. Transfer to municipal ownership of the city biological sewage treatment plant is planned. Education As well as the state comprehensive schools there are private lyceums and gymnasiums, as well as branches of other high schools and professional colleges. There is the Berdiansk State Pedagogical University and the University of Management and Business. In the Schmidt park there is the Berdiansk musical school, and nearby, almost on the coast, an art school. A subject of pride in Berdiansk is the Centre of Children's and Youthful Creativity, numbering a large quantity of study groups and ensembles. According to Ben Eklof in Russian Peasant Schools, education in Berdiansk was badly disrupted in the 1870s when the schools director, a government inspector, 'ran amok' and had to be removed from his post. Notable people Peter Jansen (1852–1923), born in Berdiansk, rancher and founder of Jansen, Nebraska, State Representative and Senator Opanas Slastion (1855–1933), painter Waldemar Haffkine (1860–1930), bacteriologist Joel Engel (1868—1927), music critic and composer Sergei Spytetsky (1877—1963) Orthodox (and later Greek-Catholic) priest Isaak Brodsky (1883–1939), Soviet-Jewish painter Polina Osipenko (1907–1939), Soviet military pilot, was born in a nearby village of Osypenko Mikhail Voskresensky (born 1935), Russian pianist Tatyana Prorochenko (1952–2020), athlete, Olympic champion (in 1976 and 1980) Olga Kurylenko (born 1979), model and actor Vladyslav Buialskyi (born 1997), opera singer Twin towns – sister cities Berdiansk is twinned with: Beibei (Chongqing), China Bielsko-Biała, Poland Glyfada, Greece Haisyn, Ukraine Horodenka, Ukraine Khmilnyk, Ukraine Kremenchuk, Ukraine Lowell, United States Poti, Georgia La Seyne-sur-Mer, France Yambol, Bulgaria References External links Berdiansk-City – site of the city of Berdiansk Cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast Berdyansky Uyezd Port cities and towns in Ukraine Seaside resorts in Ukraine Spa towns in Ukraine Populated places established in 1673 Port cities and towns of the Azov Sea Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Populated places established in the Russian Empire 1827 establishments in the Russian Empire