The Real School, the first secondary educational institution in Syzran, opened in 1873 in a two-story building in the square. Initially, it had six classes, but a seventh, additional class was added a few years later. In the 1897-1898 academic year, among the students was a teenager, Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, a future famous writer. In 1930, a textile technical school opened in the building of the former school.

The building is brick, two-story, shaped like a P, with an asymmetric plan. The main facade faces Soviet Street and is located between Victory and Volodarsky Streets. The architecture of the facades is done in the neoclassical style, with a simple composition and concise decor.

The facade on Soviet Street has an asymmetric composition and is divided into two vertical parts, with a cornice belt between the floors. The walls of the first floor are decorated with wooden rustication, and the tops of the windows are framed with wedge-shaped rustication transitioning into a window cornice. The windows of the second floor have frames with a straight architrave and a window cornice belt.

The building was specifically built for the Real School, which opened on October 20, 1873. It was funded by the state and was under the jurisdiction of the Kazan Educational District.

In 1885 and 1893, poet N.A. Panov and writer S.T. Grigoriev studied here. From August 1897 to May 1898, A.N. Tolstoy, a future famous writer, attended the 4th grade.

On July 5, 1906, the building was severely damaged by fire but was restored. In 1916, in the property register of Syzran, it was listed as "a stone house and wing of the Ministry of Public Education" at the corner of Kuznetskaya Square and Bolshaya Street (now Soviet).

After the establishment of Soviet power, the school became Labor School No. 3. On October 5, 1930, a textile technical school opened in the building at 73 Soviet Street, now a mechanical and technological technical school. In the yard, there were two-story stone and one-story wooden houses for staff, as well as a brick shed.

During the Great Patriotic War, the building housed military hospital No. 1642. In the 1950s, the house numbering changed, and house No. 73 became No. 81. On April 13, 1960, the executive committee of the city council of workers' deputies allowed for a two-story extension to the building of the knitting technical school.