This year, the textbook for the first grade pupils of schools with the Ukrainian language teaching will cost 12.76 UAH, education and science, youth and sports minister of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk told a press conference on the first results of the admission campaign 2012, ForUm correspondent reports.

"In 2009, the cost of cardboard for textbooks was not 7.2 thousand but five thousand and a textbook cost 14 UAH. Probably they were printed with great patriotism. This year the textbooks were printed at more cheap prices. The Auditing Administration of Ukraine inspected the process and made such conclusions," the minister said.

According to him, a textbook for schools with teaching in Russian and other languages of national minorities will cost 22.60 UAH.

"According to the state budget, we are obliged to print textbooks for pupils of the first and the eleventh grades. We are triumphators in this issue. For the first time in 25 years, the printing of books is completed by 1 August. The textbooks will be delivered to the regions by August 15," Tabachnyk said.

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