UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Volchansky subsidiary offered a guided tour of the plant to 5th and 6th graders from local School 23.

According to the corporation’s press service, this was part of the plant’s job counseling program aimed at getting the schoolchildren interested in blue-collar and engineering jobs. The children were introduced to safety rules and the plant’s history and traditions and were shown some of the production departments.

‘The gas cylinder department and X-ray lab were the places to learn about the modern production control technologies and about how to tell a good quality weld. At the assembly department, the schoolchildren were told about operating NC machines and making parts; they also had a chance to look at the conveyors, the paint-spraying booth, and the grain car,’ the press service says.

The children also learned about the jobs of a turner, welder, electrician, machine operator, mechanic, and other blue-collar occupations. Incidentally, many of the children’s parents and grandparents actually work at the plant.

Ural Vagon Zavod carries out job counseling events for schoolchildren and students on a regular basis, which helps the young people get a better idea of what an industrial enterprise is. Quite a few of them come to work at the plant later on.