Internationale Lomonossow-Schule

A bilingual German-Russian K-13 group with two Berlin campuses, in Tiergarten and in Marzahn-Biesdorf, founded out of a Russian-speaking parent community, MITRA, in 2006 and 2007. Around 580 pupils across the two sites, all the way through to Abitur.

Lomonossow runs primary, lower and upper secondary in both locations, with the gymnasium licence allowing students to sit the Abitur on site. The model is full bilingual immersion in German and Russian, with strong heritage-language teaching for Russian-speaking families and intensive German support for newcomers.

Independent parent voice is thin in English, and the user base is heavily Russian-speaking with limited overlap into the wider expat circuit. The school reports above-average results in Berlin gymnasium rankings. Practical fit is narrow: a strong choice for families wanting serious German-Russian bilingual education and Abitur access, less obviously the school for families looking for an English-medium international curriculum.

• Public parent discussion centres on a March 2022 arson attack on the Marzahn school's gym, which Berlin's mayor Franziska Giffey publicly condemned; police investigated a possible link to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• Outside that incident, German-language parent forums and Google reviews aggregate around a middling rating, with comments split between praise for Russian-language depth and concerns shared on Berlin Privatschulen and similar profiles.
• The school's bilingual German-Russian profile and Berlin-Marzahn location dominate independent commentary; very little international-parent voice surfaces in English forums.