Andrey Checherin visited the Pavlovsky Automotive Mechanical Technical School.

      December 31, 2025, 15:11 Society

      Deputy Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Andrey Checherin visited the Pavlovsky Automotive-Mechanical Technical College named after I.I. Lepse and assessed the work of the education-production cluster in the “Mechanical Engineering” sector, created at the institution under the “Professionalitet” program at the beginning of the 2025–2026 academic year.

      The college was visited by the deputy head of the region together with the regional Minister of Education and Science Mikhail Puchkov and the head of local government of the Pavlovsky municipal district Alexey Kirillov.

      As the regional government reminded, in January 2025 a delegation inspected the progress of construction work in the workshops. Today educational activities are already in full swing in the new spaces.

      “The new workshops at the Pavlovsky Automotive-Mechanical Technical College meet all the standards of the ‘Professionalitet’ program, which since 2025 has been part of the national project ‘Youth and Children.’ The equipment purchased is intended for the long term: it corresponds to the equipment that the Pavlovsky Bus Plant — the anchor enterprise — already uses or plans to acquire in the future. It is pleasing that many students at the institution are studying under targeted contracts. These are young people who will be able to find employment at the enterprise and will develop our industry,” said Andrey Checherin.

      200 million rubles were allocated to create the workshops under the “Professionalitet” project, including 100 million from the federal budget and 69 million from the regional budget. In addition, the Pavlovsky Bus Plant invested 30 million rubles in the project. The Pavlovsky Automotive-Mechanical Technical College contributed another 1 million rubles for these purposes.

      Among the directions of the educational programs prepared by the college’s methodologists together with specialists from the partner enterprise are “Mechanical Engineering Technology,” “Mechatronics,” “Welding Production,” “CNC Machine Operator-Adjuster,” “Welder,” “Construction Machinery Repair Mechanic,” and “Electrician for Repair and Maintenance of Electrical Equipment.”

      Second-year student Dmitry Lobanov, a future CNC machine operator at the Pavlovsky Bus Plant, spoke about practical training at the college. “Thanks to the new educational program, our practical classes started immediately in the first year. I am proud that my technical college has been so transformed by ‘Professionalitet’! Now we have the opportunity to receive education at an even higher level,” he said.

      Among the new spaces is the “Mechatronics” zone. It is equipped with five workstations — mechatronics stations designed for students to acquire practical skills in working with modern robotics.

      Another “Professionalitet” laboratory is a metal forming workshop. Here students can apply theoretical knowledge in practice, study material properties and master technological processes. Both special teaching-laboratory equipment and industrial machines have been installed for training: pipe-bending, sheet-bending and rolling machines.

      “As with the entire system of secondary vocational education, we are focused on the continuous improvement of training quality and on synchronizing the efforts of the state, partner enterprises and the educational organization. The federal ‘Professionalitet’ program has allowed us to make our programs practice-oriented so that students can fully study the entire technological production cycle and acquire production operation skills. This is done so that graduates transition seamlessly to work at the Pavlovsky Bus Plant,” said Albina Ivanova, director of the Pavlovsky Automotive-Mechanical Technical College named after I.I. Lepse.

      Within the “Professionalitet” project, a new laboratory for painting and heat treatment of parts has also been equipped at the college. It includes five workstations equipped with modern robotic painting complexes. Students have a unique opportunity to master practical skills working with such systems, further enhancing their training with virtual augmented reality technology simulators — VR painting simulators.

      The new “Welding Technologies” laboratory, in turn, is designed to train 21 students simultaneously. It features five specialized zones for argon-arc welding, one operator station for an automated robot welder, five ultrasonic flaw-detection posts and ten stations for practicing semi-automatic welding skills.

      Recall that the federal “Professionalitet” program is part of the national project “Youth and Children.” The national project is being implemented in the country at the directive of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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