UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2019. Senior Design Engineer at EVRAZ West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) Sergey Nagibin won silver in Mechanical Reverse Engineering at WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports.

‘Sergey Nagibin competed in the Future Skills section that covers promising job skills that the hi tech production and digital economy will likely need soon. The section comprises 25 different subcategories, including Space Systems Engineering, Quantum Technology, In-Company Protection Against Insider Threats for Cybersecurity, Neural Interface Design, Reverse Engineering, and Drone Operation. This is the first time the section on Future Skills has been introduced in the championship,’ the company says.

For three days, Nagibin was busy competing his six tasks: creating a 3D model of a plane fuselage fixture; creating a 3D model of a clockwork mechanism; restoring a 3D model of a sophisticated, yet defective, spare part back to working state; and three other tasks. The contestant did a spectacular job of all the challenges and was only outstripped by a participant from China.

More than 1,300 contestants from 63 different countries and parts of Russia took part in the 45th WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Championship. The participants competed in 56 different categories.