On Thursday, in the building of the Federal Air Transport Agency in Moscow, the winners and prize-winners of the Aviation Olympiad for schoolchildren of the 2022/2023 academic year were awarded, reports the official website of the Union of Aircraft Manufacturers of Russia.
The third place according to the results of the Aviation Olympiad for schoolchildren was taken by a student of the 11th grade of the Joint Turkmen-Russian secondary school named after A.S. Pushkin in the city of Ashgabat Kirill Sultanmuradov. He was congratulated in absentia, in the near future he will be given a diploma.
Alexander Perfilov from Moscow became the best. Diploma for the second place was awarded to Nikolai Ovchinnikov from Yaroslavl.
The aviation Olympiad for schoolchildren was held by the Moscow Educational School with initial flight training with the assistance of the Federal Air Transport Agency on the basis of industry universities and leading Russian airlines.
The purpose of the Olympiad is the professional orientation of young people, popularization of the profession of a pilot, increasing the level of training of candidates entering civil aviation educational institutions, and creating the necessary conditions for supporting gifted children.
The participants of the Olympiad are boys and girls from 12 regions of the Russian Federation: Vladivostok, Ishim, Nyagan, Ufa, Kazan, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Donetsk, Makeevka and Makhachkala. Two students represented Turkmenistan (Ashgabat) and the USA (Milwaukee).
During the Olympiad, general education profile disciplines and special aviation disciplines, integrated with the subjects of the school curriculum, were taken. Separately, the participants of the Olympiad passed physical training.
Deputy Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Dmitry Yadrov congratulated the winners and prize-winners of the Aviation Olympiad for schoolchildren and thanked the leadership of educational institutions for their contribution to the development of career guidance for the younger generation.