VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The student construction teams movement in Russia has over 250,000 members. The teams are engaged in implementing the priority national projects Affordable and Comfortable Housing, Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex, as well as in building the 2014 Olympics facilities in Sochi and facilities for the APEC-2012 Summit in Vladivostok.
About 1,500 students from relevant universities were chosen in a contest to work on the Olympic construction sites in Sochi. That is seven times more than last year when about 200 students took part in construction. Students will work at Olympic construction projects in July-August 2010 for a monthly pay of 17,000 roubles or more.
Student units have flocked to Sochi from all over Russia: from Kazan, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Voronezh, Moscow, St Petersburg, Yoshkar-Ola, Khabarovsk, Novgorod the Great, Krasnoyarsk, Izhevsk, Krasnodar, Ulyanovsk, Tomsk, Pyatigorsk, Cheboksary, Saratov and other cities.
More than 1,000 students from 11 Russian regions as well as from Armenia and Kazakhstan work at Russian Railways construction sites, in particular building the motorway and railway route Adler-Alpika-Service.
The Russian highway construction agency Rosavtodor uses 233 students from 12 Russian regions and one unit from Belarus. They are building the transport infrastructure in Sochi: city interchanges, and service roads running parallel to the main highway.
Sixty-nine students from four Russian regions work on Gazprom's construction projects, notably the building of the thermal power plant in Adler.
Olympstroi sites employ 129 students from five Russian regions. They are contributing to the construction of the Grand Ice Arena, the Ice Sports Palace, and the motorway from the Alpika-Service mountain holiday resort to the finish zone of the downhill skiing centre Roza Khutor.
Students have been provided with a work plan, and can choose whether to work as concrete mixers, strappers, steel fixers, general workers, stonemasons, plasterers, nurses or cooks. The construction team members live in comfortable dormitories located in builders' settlements or holiday homes. They are provided with hot meals, medical service and work clothes.
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On July 2, 2010 the State Duma passed the first reading of the draft law On Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation Concerning the Development of the Student Work Team Movement. The amendments would stimulate employers to create jobs for students to involve them in the construction of major infrastructure and industrial facilities in Russia.