No-Turnstile Week campaign started in Tatarstan
On April 15, 2019, the annual All-Russian No-Turnstile Week campaign started in Tatarstan as part of the “Year of Blue Collar”. The campaign is a set of actions aimed at improving career guidance, awareness of activities in major Russia’s enterprises and promoting engineering trades and specialties that are in demand in industries.
On Monday, the Alnas plant was visited by schoolchildren of the Almetyevsk Municipal District from Secondary School No. 11 and Ursalinskaya Basic School. At the plant, they were given a tour of the production workshops and the educational building of the Tatarstan’s College of the Future. Each of the students could try themselves in the role of welders, electricians, and programmers.
At the Continuing Professional Education and Industrial Training Centre of the Kazan Powder Plant, a meeting was held for 5th-year students of the Chemical Plant Equipment Chair at the KNRTU Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology.
The students were addressed by the Chief Engineer, the head of the Personnel Policy Department, workshop supervisors, and the head of the Experimental Mechanical Section. Heads of the Kazan Gunpowder Plant divisions told students about promising areas of product development, specific features of work, social benefits for employees. The speakers shared their experience of the benefits of employment at the plant. For illustrative purposes, students were shown videos about factory life.