The Youth Day has opened at the Ehxibition «EXPOTECHNOSTRAZH».
The core event of the 3rd day of the Exhibition «EXPOTECHNOSTAZH 2024» held at the St. Petersburg EXPOFORUM was the official opening ceremony of the Youth Day.
This event has been taking place since the foundation of the Exhibition «EXPOTECHNOSTRAZH». For the third year now, it has been gathering the large number of young people – schoolchildren, students and even kindergarten children. Sergey Burakov, Commander of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern District, addressed the participants in the Youth Day with his welcome speech. He noted that the Youth Day is a «major and significant» event. «You are our hope, you are the future of strong and powerful Russia», said Sergey Burakov, addressing the boys and girls, and wished them victories, success and their future plan implementation.
Andrey Kiyko, Head of the St. Petersburg Military Institute of the National Guard Troops, thanked the audience for supporting the Russian Guard Troops, and noted that «the large number of those present at the Exhibition means that we are doing everything right».
Petr Kuzmin, Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Education Committee, stressed that increasingly more children visit the Exhibition every year, and reminded them that «the future of their Motherland is in their hands».
On behalf of the organizers of the Forum “EXPOTECHNOSTRAZH”, and EXPOFORUM International, the project manager Yulia Volodarskaya addressed the audience. She noted that the organizers try to make the Exhibition interesting, even for young people, so that children could get acquainted with the work of the Russian Guard services, as well as the industrial enterprises, and choose the path of their professional development.
As part of the Youth Day opening ceremony, the winners of the 9th All-Russian Competition of social projects for students of cadet organizations «Formation of Patriotism in Cadet Corps» were awarded. The best children’s groups received valuable prizes and gifts out of hands of Sergey Burakov and Andrey Kiyko. The awarding ceremony was also attended by Aleksander Medvedev, Head of the Education Directorate of the Russian Guard, Oleg Semenenko, Director of the Special Projects Directorate, Denis Ermakov, Head of the Main Military and Political Directorate, and Aleksander Zakurdaev, Deputy Chairman of the Northwestern Bank of Sberbank PJSC.