Vladimir Putin went to Yaroslavl on Thursday. The president spoke to students and teachers which were participants of the Projectoria Forum, held a working meeting with Governor of Yaroslavl Oblast Dmitry Mironov, and took part in the opening ceremony of Year of Theater in Russia later that day. The ceremony was held at the Fyodor Volkov Russian Drama Theater.
Alexey Petrov will continue with details.
This is more like a giant laboratory rather than just a forum. Dozens of projects are being developed. Here's a smart city of the future with wide usage of renewable energy. This railway doesn't seem to be a toy. This is a distance lesson for beginner railroaders. The students themselves are in Irkutsk, while the model is here, in Yaroslavl. Here's an entire station, trains, and a depot. Here you can see the Sapsan has started moving by command of the young operator from Irkutsk. The young railroaders are sure that this is not just a model, this is the future of high-speed transportation.
Daniil Fisak, participant from Irkutsk: "I think that by 2030 we'll be traveling by unmanned trains. There won't be any engineers at all".
Eleven-year-old Yaroslav Bakanov from Nizhny Novgorod also dreams of becoming a railroader.
Yaroslav Bakanov: "I've already seen the cars and locomotive. I like it here. The railway has become a real ticket to the future for me".
Vladimir Putin: "In the future, Russia should be represented by such brilliant people as you, with all of your achievements and success in the field which you will choose for yourself. You know, when the first president of Russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, called me to him and said "I want to submit you as a candidate for Prime Minister of the State Duma, and then I suggest that you run a presidential campaign. Do you agree?" I said no. He quite surprised. He was quite a peculiar man. He said, "Why not?" I said, "Mr. Yeltsin, I'm not ready". I was already a big boy. By that time, I had worked for a long time in various state bodies. I want to wish you to be ready as soon as possible to make your own life decision".
The ability to make decisions is self-reliance and the willingness to devote years to a scientific idea. For some, the forum is an opportunity to decide on a future profession, to understand where you should go. Others have made their choice. Young inventors have come to Yaroslavl from all over the country, presenting their projects and hoping that large companies will pay attention to them.
This aircraft is completely made out of composite components. Before, cropdusters were used to cultivate fields, but here's a new generation of aircraft. This thing is compact and light, only 1,675 pounds, less than a car. This aircraft is capable of flying over 600 miles without refueling. The plane can already fly. It's going to be put into production in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast. The first orders have already been made.
Sergei Gorobets, participant: "The aircraft uses usual 95-octane gasoline. It has a simple piston engine. In the forward fuselage, there's a 130-gallon tank where the agent is stored and it sprayed via these sprayers".
Young engineers develop promising drones as well. If this drone is connected via a cable to a generator on the ground it can hover for hours.
Tamila Karakhanova, participant: "It can be used during emergencies, fires, floods, or some civil tasks such as land-surveying or monitoring. It's also equipped with a communication repeater so it can provide communication in hard-to-reach areas".
This is a miniature model of a robot that is capable of sorting waste. First of all, this concerns hazardous industry.
Many students who have come to Yaroslavl are interested in IT and programming. Here they can talk to their peers who have already entered the IT industry.
- What do you need to become an IT-professional?
Arseny Semyonov, participant: "You need diligence and strive to make a perfect product because when you make a program, you make it for people and they should be pleased with it".
Undoubtedly, many are thinking about starting their own business or imagine themselves as the head of a large company. But business is not just personal, financial success. First of all, it's an ability to find the projects that can improve the future of the country and invest in them.
Vladimir Putin: "We have famous examples — the Crimean Bridge for instance. It's a business project. But the country needs this project. When you create a product that can last for a long time, or forever, it makes you a happy person. Only then you can say you haven't wasted your life. You can say that you haven't just been making money not knowing where to put it afterward".
Rodion Karvan is a student from Novosibirsk who burns with his own ideas. He developed a system for the elimination of space debris using beams of sunlight.
Rodion Karvan: "You can see a parabolic mirror here. It can reflect sunlight, focusing it on an object of space debris. By doing so, it can burn debris, evaporate it, and change its trajectory".
It's just a project for now, like dozens of other developments. With every Projectoria new ideas seem not to be left on paper.
Alexey Petrov, Alexandra Terpugova, Alexander Antonov, Nikita Fomkin. Vesti Nedeli, Yaroslavl.
