Belarusian university students to participate in Russian cosmodrome construction

Teams of Belarusian university students will participate in building the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Amur Oblast, BelTA learned from Sergei Klishevich, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the public organization Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM).

While the Belarusian students are expected to start working in late April, vigorous preparations are already in place. Every week the BRSM’s primary organizations in vocational schools and universities arrange awareness sessions to inform prospective workers about the job opportunities that will be available during the third labor semester.

Oblast seminars for chiefs of individual student teams and student brigades have been held in many parts of the country. BRSM representatives have met with the representatives of government agencies, who are in charge of taking care of youth policy, education, labor, social protection, and education. Using job opportunities that are available all the year round students in Vitebsk Oblast started working in medical positions as of 1 April 2015. Students in Minsk are expected to take up jobs in the manufacturing sector and the scientific sector soon.

Thanks to tight cooperation between the Belarusian Republican Youth Union and the all-Russian public organization that unites and offers job opportunities to Russian student teams Belarusian university students will be able to start working at the construction site of the Vostochny cosmodrome in Amur Oblast. The project has been declared an all-Russian youth construction project. A Belarusian-Russian team of students will be employed at the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

The 70th anniversary of the Great Victory over the Nazi during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 will be celebrated this year. This is why all the student teams in the Union State of Belarus and Russia will be named after a hero of the Soviet Union or a holder of all grades of the Order of Glory. The student teams are going to help war veterans, elderly people, who live on their own. Belarusian and Russian students will also take care of beautifying memorials, communal graves, and obelisks.