Marina Malyutina

In 2025, the Russian nuclear industry will celebrate its 80th anniversary. In honor of this event, the SPbGASU Center for Student Entrepreneurship and Career organized a lecture for students by representatives of the St Petersburg Design Institute, a branch of JSC Atomenergoproekt, which is part of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom and is engaged in the design and construction of nuclear power facilities in our country and abroad.

Marina Malyutina, SPbGASU Vice-Rector for Youth Policy, on behalf of the university management thanked Atomenergoproekt for their long-term cooperation: organizing internships, holding career guidance meetings, launching training courses, and hiring graduates. Marina Viktorovna is confident that engineering professions and, in particular, the profession of a civil engineer, are in great demand today. It is better for young specialists to start their careers in a large state corporation, where they can gain new knowledge and integrate into the corporate environment.

Andrey Khlyzov

Andrey Khlyzov, Deputy Head of Technological Directorate-2, spoke about the past, present and future of the nuclear industry. He reported that 360-370 thousand people work in the Rosatom corporation. Its traditional product is nuclear energy. The corporation is also diversifying its economic capacities and is engaged in new products, including a scientific complex, development of the Northern Sea Route, wind energy, nuclear medicine, advanced materials and technologies, etc. The geography of the projects is very extensive: 22 units are at the implementation stage in seven countries.

"Rosatom has no competitors. We are leaders, our projects are cheap and safe," the speaker said.

Andrey Nasedkin, Head of the Department of Integrated Design of Security Systems from Technological Directorate-1, introduced the students to the main stages of design work. The students were particularly interested in the possibility of undergoing internship in the departments of integrated design, where the "heart" of the nuclear power plant - the nuclear island - originates.

Musalan Suleimanov, Head of the Construction Department, informed about the work of the division he heads. The department unites one architectural and four construction units, a metal structures unit, an estimate unit, a research and calculation-theoretical unit of building structures, a unit for designing fire safety measures, civil defense and emergency situations, a group for geotechnical calculations and analysis of the interaction of NPP structures with soil, a group for production support and production control and analysis.

"A modern nuclear power plant that comes from our "pen" will withstand the fall of a large commercial aircraft at a speed of 400 meters per second, an earthquake of up to nine points, additional impacts - internal explosions, external explosions, tornadoes, extreme weather conditions. We even designed the building on a geotechnical fault. That is, we justified to the strictest Finnish regulator - and, by the way, he accepted this justification - the possibility of building a nuclear power plant on an existing geotechnical fault," said Musalan Suleimanov.

Students had the opportunity to communicate directly with professionals. They asked about the conditions of internship, salary levels, and the support that young professionals receive.

The speakers emphasized that Rosatom needs good engineers. It takes four to five years to become one. But after a year, the guys who come straight from university show results. Mentoring is well-developed in the state corporation; new employees do not go through their development path alone. A big plus is that the work is associated with a considerable number of business trips around the world. Here you quickly become a professional, and when you see with your own eyes a facility under construction that will soon provide people with electricity and heat, you feel proud.

At the end of the meeting, the students played the "Atomic Quiz" and received corporate gifts from Atomenergoproekt. The meeting broadened their professional horizons and encouraged them to think about building a career at Rosatom.