in 2002, several specialists in the training for science olympiads, notably irina chernyavskaya and vladimir davydenko, left lyceum 64, then a leading educational center of omsk, and chose to work in the school 117. this gave an impulse for the development of the school: in 2004, an agreement about the cooperation with omsk state university was made, and a new headmaster, svetlana boykova, was appointed; in 2007, the school received the status of gimnasium; in 2008, there were two winners of international mathematical olympiad, nikita kudyk and konstantin matveev.