May 26, 2015. Students of ChTPZ Group Training Center won a full set of prize medals at the 3d All-Russian WorldSkills 2015 championship, the Group’s press service reports.

Gold in Mechatronics went to fourth-year students of Pervouralsk Metallurgical School on the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program Ilya Ivanov and Alexander Pauls. Nikolay Vinogradov, the school’s second-year student, won the silver medal in Industrial Automation, while the corporate program’s alumnus and employee of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Anton Shalakhov got the bronze one in Welding Technologies.

‘The many medals won by alumni of and students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy program prove once again that our training center is the best place for dual education of highly skilled vocational cadre,’ says the Group’s Chairman of the BOD Alexander Fedorov.

All in all, over 500 contestants from forty-six Russian constituencies and from abroad took part in the final stage of the championship. There were more than 600 experts on the judges’ panel. Sverdlovsk Region’s team won the second prize in the team overall score.