More than 300 young Sverdlovsk residents have shown their skills at TIRUS SKILLS

SVERDLOVSK REGION

 

The TIRUS SKILLS professional mastery championship has been held in Verkhnyaya Salda. The five-day event was organized by VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, PJSC with support from the Empathy charitable foundation of the corporation’s shareholder Mikhail Shelkov. A total of 309 students from 14 technical schools and colleges across the Sverdlovsk Region, along with members of the Prospect Professional and Industrial Cluster have taken part.

 

Experts assessed their theoretical knowledge and practical abilities in 15 competencies, including Engineering Design CAD, Construction, Non-Destructive Testing, Metrology & Instrumentation, Additive Manufacturing, Work on Universal Lathes, Mechanical and Engineering Process Design, and others, the VSMPO-AVISMA press service told RusBusinessNews.

Junior (14–18 years) winners: Georgy Gagarin, Lev Putilov, Nikita Novosadov, Vsevolod Kulik, Nikita Ilyichev, Yuri Ivanov, Maria Shilkova, Ekaterina Suetina, Polina Babkina, Ksenia Mikhaylovskaya, Stepan Zimin, Ekaterina Shilova, Ivan Vaskov, Kirill Karpenko, and Egor Kolesnikov — all students of the Prospect Professional and Industrial Cluster.

 

Student winners: Maksim Isakov (Krasnoturyinsk Industrial College), Kirill Pidzhakov (Irbit Motorcycle Technical School), Roman Kerzo (Ekaterinburg College of Chemical Engineering), Vsevolod Kulik, Nikita Ilyichev, and Zakhar Manin (all from the A. A. Evstigneev Verkhnyaya Salda Aerospace Metallurgical College).

“The TIRUS SKILLS championship has been taking place in Verkhnyaya Salda for three years. It began as a project aimed at school pupils only and has now expanded to include students from across the Sverdlovsk Region. I’m pleased to see the growing prestige of technical trades; we must keep supporting this trend. We’re already thinking about taking TIRUS SKILLS beyond educational institutions and perhaps even beyond our region,” said Dmitry Trifonov, CEO of VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, PJSC.

 

“The Sverdlovsk Region Ministry of Education supports corporate skill championships because they strengthen the system of secondary vocational education. Letting schoolchildren compete alongside students aids early career guidance. We thank VSMPO-AVISMA and the Empathy Foundation for organizing the championship and for their ongoing support of the movement,” added Svetlana Tretikhina, Sverdlovsk Region Minister of Education.

 

In May 2024, VSMPO-AVISMA signed a staffing-cooperation agreement with the Industry and Science Ministry and Education Ministry of the Sverdlovsk Region, as well as local secondary vocational institutions. The accord aims to develop human-resource potential, scientific-technical and innovative activity — notably by training qualified employees for the most in-demand trades and specialties — and to raise the prestige of technical professions.