UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 15, 2018. Maxim Koryakin, who is currently a student on ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program, won silver in the 6th WorldSkills Russia blue-collar job championship in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Koryakin competed (as member of Sverdlovsk Region’s team) in Reverse Engineering, the Group’s press service reports.

The corporate program students Artem Ulyanov and Mikhail Sokhrannov also made it to Sverdlovsk Region’s team in the contest. They were, respectively, among the championship’s top ten and top five finalists. The national championship winners will go on to represent Russia in the international rounds of the competition as part of WorldSkills Russia’s national team. In September 2018, World Skills Russia’s team will compete in EuroSkills Budapest 2018 and then (in August 2019) in the world championship WorldSkills Kazan 2019.

‘This is the first time the students on our corporate training program competed as part of Sverdlovsk Region’s team in WorldSkills Russia’s Reverse Engineering section. The fact that they won this silver medal in the nationwide round of the championship proves that our students receive high-quality training and that ChelPipe Group relies on highly sophisticated robotics and is ready for all kinds of innovative solutions,’ says Managing Director of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Plant Alexei Dronov.