Vitebsk Summarizes Results of the Third Work Semester
– Every year, the student team movement attracts more and more young people. With burning eyes, they share their impressions of their working days, and by their example, they show their peers that it is possible to combine both study and work, and how to be useful to society. Student teams unite and foster love for their native land and country. This is very important, – noted the President's Aide – Inspector for the Vitebsk Region, Sergey Levkovich.
– Student teams today acquire a special meaning. The youth of the Vitebsk region always actively participates in international, republican, and regional projects. Now our fighters are working on the construction of a patriotic center in Brest. At one time, they built a cosmodrome, and now they have returned from the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Participation in such projects is a good school of life, where guys and girls acquire knowledge and experience. After all, those who have built something with their own hands, those who have chosen the path of creative labor, will never destroy. Student team fighters are a forge of personnel, they are our future, – noted the Chairman of the Regional Council of Deputies, Dmitry Demidov.
– The third labor semester is the most long-awaited time for student team members. According to the results of the labor semester, over 7 thousand people were employed in the Vitebsk region, who worked as part of construction, agricultural, pedagogical, environmental, service, medical, and production student teams. A landmark event was the launch of the regional youth construction project. Its object was the road surface of Orekhovskaya Street. The fighters performed road work (installation of curbs, tiles), – noted the First Secretary of the Regional Committee of the BRSM, Zhanna Naritsyna.
The youth event brought together over 1.5 thousand people – members of student teams, commanders and commissars of territorial headquarters, veterans of the movement and heads of organizations hosting student teams, as well as representatives of the regional Youth Parliament and a delegation of children from Donbas, who arrived in the Vitebsk region as part of the humanitarian project "Children – Childhood Without War!".
Following the results of the third labor semester, the best commanders, commissars, territorial headquarters, and student teams were recognized. Among the awardees was the service student team "Molniya" named after Hero of the Soviet Union Alexey Patrin.
– This summer we worked at the children's health resort "Lesnaya Skazka". We helped install lighting equipment, and my knowledge as an "electromechanical technician" was very useful. The girls worked in the kitchen, – noted the detachment commander **Pavel Truhan**. – For me, being in a student team is an opportunity to try myself in various activities and understand what interests me professionally.