About us

Who We Are

Vasilisa tutoring center is a unique and authentic educational facility in Los Angeles with the family-like atmosphere and multilateral classes. This Russian oriented school is located in Encino SF Valley in Southern California. Our center helps Russian-speaking parents to incorporate Russian language and Russian culture into their kid's lives. Vasilisa works for all age groups and maintains pedagogic resources in a bunch of different educational areas. Among regular courses such as mathematics, logic,  science, Spanish, English, Russian grammar, literature and history, Vasilisa's students enjoy art, modeling, chess lessons, cooking classes and much more.

Parents may enroll their kids to the group classes depending on the current level of their kid's knowledge, or to order individual tutoring to deepen their chid's understanding in particular areas. Not only Vasilisa center provides flexible scheduling options throughout the week, but it also offers a Saturday school for kids and Sunday Mom+kid, play-and-learn camp.

All teachers in the Vasilisa Tutoring center hold university degrees, went through the professional psychological training and have extensive pedagogical experience. We understand that kids come to our center after their regular school hours and may be exhausted with the academic activities. That is why every class in the Vasilisa Tutoring center is a piece-of-art project that combines educational advancements with the game approach, to keep our students tuned and enjoyed from the first minute in our center.

In our tutoring center, your child will be involved to the interesting communication with peers, will improve his/her behavioral and communication skills. Our teachers and tutors help kids to build teams based on shared interests and to enrich their knowledge by team collaboration.

Our center offers unique opportunities for an addition to the regular schooling education, intellectual and talent development for kids seven days a week. By combining recreational and learning processes, our classes allow your children to receive an excellent opportunity for harmonious development and socialization. We are confident that every day in our center will be full of positivity, which will have a beneficial effect on the development of your kid's personalities. Not only we are positively affecting today's life of our students, but also we undoubtedly make a positive impact on their future.

Vasilisa Tutoring Center also provides special birthday parties packages with the wide variety of themes such as Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland and others. Kids will experience unique science oriented lesson, face painting, yummy lunch and much fun. Parents may enjoy Art classes for adults with wine tasting while waiting for their little students. We are planning to launch acting classes and do our best to make the school all-in-one educational center.

Regular Courses:
See Our Program
In our academic program we united the traditional methods of teaching with the game style teaching.
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My History

I really felt the value of my profession when I moved to LA with my daughter, Nastya, who was 5 years old at the time.

I knew firsthand from friends and acquaintances how quickly children lose their native language here and how difficult and sometimes impossible to preserve it and, so to speak, multiply.

Anticipating this problem, I began teaching Nastya to read and write in Russian using the old, soviet style ABC-book and cursive writing workbook, which were used for teaching Russian when I was in an elemetary school.

I just used whatever I had on my hands. She was the first person I taught to read and write.

Being a teacher of Russian language and literature, having worked in a Russian school for more than 10 years, I never realized how challenging and at the same time interesting and rewarding it may be to teach the basics of Russian.

After all, the children I taught in Russia came to me, already possessing these excellent skills of speaking and writing. And so I began to teach other children to read and write.

Now we are called «Vasilisa». Our school has more than 100 students, we have classes from Monday to Saturday. These are not only classes of the Russian language (writing and reading), but also Mathematics, Logic, Spanish, English, Painting, Chess, etc.

We strive to combine high quality education, elements of creativity and an individual approach to each student. Our school is an opportunity to preserve our roots, speak Russian and enjoy the learning process.

We are glad to everyone who is interested in preserving the language for their children and grandchildren.

Tatiana Ermolaeva, the owner of the school.

Our teachers

Carriers of language, knowledge and wisdom

Tatiana Ermolaeva
Tatiana ErmolaevaPrincipal, teacher of Russian language, creator of unique educational program Vasilisa. vasilisatutoring@gmail.com
Graduated from the Kurgan State University with the major of «Teacher of Russian language and literature». Has a teaching experience of more than 25 years. Developed a special course of Russian language and literature specifically for Vasilisa tutoring center.
Vladimir Priyma
Vladimir PriymaTeacher of Russian language and literature
Graduated from UCLA with the majors in International Economics and Russian Studies. Easily connects with children, finds the ways to explain the hard material in a playful fun manner.
Arshak Ramazyan
Arshak RamazyanChess trainer
Fide Master started from 2009 Fide Trainer Started from 2011 Winner of Helsinki Tournament 1997 Winner of TallinnTournament 2000 Third place in Czestochowa Some of my students are grandmasters and international masters now. One of grandmasters is Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, International Masters are David Shahinyan and Tigran Simonyan.
Hector Gutierrez Poroj
Hector Gutierrez PorojTutor of Spanish.
Working on getting a B.S. degree in Sociology at the California State University of Nortridge. He was a teacher assistant at Department of Education Teacher's assistant in January 2014-December 2015 in Guatemala.
Elza Avakian
Elza AvakianVocal teacher.
Laureate of international competitions and festivals. Grand Prix winner. Graduated from Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Pupils are winners of European competitions Austria, France, Italy, Czech Republic.
Mikael Ayrapetyan
Mikael Ayrapetyanis a pianist, composer, producer, teacher, as well as a researcher and public figure.
He received his musical education at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. At the graduate school of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory Mikael Ayrapetyan became the bearer of the world-famous performing and pedagogical traditions of the XX century.
Yulia Ayrapetyan
Yulia Ayrapetyanis a pianist, producer and teacher of the 1st qualification category.
Yulia Ayrapetyan have performed with great success in a number of European countries and cities of Russia, Armenia and China. She received her master's degree in music arts in Moscow, in the class of Professor and pianist Vasily Shcherbakov, grandson of the famous children's composer and teacher, Dmitry Kabalevsky.
Maria
MariaTrainer-choreographer
Professional choreographer. Arrived in the USA on an EB-1 visa for individuals with extraordinary abilities. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Culture and Arts with a specialization in choreography. Worked as a soloist at the Moscow Music Hall Theater. Additionally, collaborated for many years with some of the most renowned artists in the Russian entertainment industry. Possess ten years of experience as a choreographer and coach, working with children of various ages.
Mariia Paskal
Mariia PaskalSpeech therapist and defectologist, teacher of the 1st qualification category.
Graduated with honors from the master's degree of Kursk State Pedagogical University in the field of speech therapy. She completed an internship in an international program in Bochum, Germany. Mariia has extensive experience working with children of all ages, including bilinguals, children with disabilities, as well as adults. Helps non-speaking children to master their native language, teaches children beautiful and clear pronunciation and correct grammar.
Zlata Khaitova
Zlata KhaitovaWorking with young children
Zlata graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical College with a degree in pre-school and elementary school teaching. She has been working with young children for more than five years. She found a passion for this career during her years of Jiu Jitsu practicing. Sometimes, Zlata's sensei would ask her to teach some basic moves to young students, and she noticed that she enjoyed the process and could manage kids very well. Later she decided to make teaching her career. Zlata learned how to spark an interest in kids' eyes and keep them interested and motivated. Children also enjoy to be around her and learn a lot in Zlata's classes.
Margarita Zaitseva
Margarita ZaitsevaDance and acting teacher, director of children's shows, animator.
Graduated from the Yaroslavl State Theatre Institute, with a degree in puppet shows, theater and movie actress. Engaged in aerial acrobatics. Loves children and knows how to create a festive atmosphere, a creative environment in her classes. Where Margo is, there is always fun!
Anastasia Torganchuk
Anastasia TorganchukArt teacher
Anastasia Torganchuk graduated from Vladikavkaz Art College with degrees in Design and teaching of Design. Later she increased her qualification by receiving the continuing education certificates in Painting and Graphic Design. Anastasia has been working in the area of young children art education for more than five years. She has developed her own unique teaching style, and the kids love her lessons and enjoy to be in Anastasia’s art classes.

Contact Us:

Address

14766 Ventura Blvd. 2nd floor. (Entrance in the back). Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Phone

+1 818-371-0569
+1 818-266-5846

Opening hours:

Mon—Fri from 2 to 7
Sat from 9 to 4
Sun from 9 to 2

E-mail

vasilisatutoring@gmail.com