Milana Star, the 16-year-old daughter of Russian actor Vitaly Gogunsky, has officially switched to home schooling after finishing her ninth grade education.
The teenager chose to complete her final two years of secondary school from home so that she can balance her academic work with her ongoing schedule of musical concerts and television shoots.
In an interview with the Russian entertainment news outlet StarHit, she explained that continuing her studies at home was the only practical choice given her intense work commitments. She said that the new academic year began as usual for her, accompanied by the feeling that she now has to accomplish all of her tasks twice as fast.
Milana completed her ninth-grade studies while actively performing on stage and participating in video productions. In the Russian education system, completing ninth grade marks the end of basic general schooling, leaving students with two final years of upper secondary education before graduation.
Her father, Vitaly Gogunsky, is a well-known Russian actor and musician who achieved widespread recognition for playing the character Kuzya in the long-running television comedy series Univer. The popular sitcom, which centered on the lives of university students sharing a dormitory, made Gogunsky a household name across the country.
Bullying drives other celebrity families to home study
Milana Star is not the only child of a famous Russian performer to move away from traditional classroom schooling in recent months. Earlier, Sergei Zhukov, the lead vocalist of the pop group Ruki Vverh, revealed that his daughter Nika had also been transferred to home education.
Zhukov, famous as the performer of the popular pop track Kroshka Moya, stated that his family decided to switch Nika to home schooling in order to protect her from constant emotional stress. He explained that the decision came after she experienced persistent bullying from her peers at school.
The singer previously shared that Nika had suffered from harassment by fellow pupils since her time in kindergarten, driven entirely by his widespread public fame. Ruki Vverh rose to prominence in the late 1990s as one of the defining dance-pop groups in Russia, maintaining a large nationwide following for decades.
For young people balancing early careers or public exposure with their schooling, home education offers an adaptable route to complete the upper secondary curriculum while avoiding the pressures of public school life.
