Students from grades 9, 10 and 11 of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) came to the Volga Region University of Sport and Tourism to learn about the university's facilities.

Danir Islyamov, Executive Secretary of the Admissions Committee, welcomed the guests from the distant region and guided the future applicants through the university's teaching and laboratory building and one of the buildings of the Universiade Village.

The students were shown a computer room, one of the best in the country, and were told about cyber sports and the fijital trend that has been developing in recent years. Then the students were given a tour of the Universiade Museum by students of the Department of Service and Tourism of the International Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism. At the end of the tour, the students got acquainted with the opportunities of the Information and Resource Centre and got a bird's-eye view of the Universiade Village thanks to the mock-up.

After that, the high school students were taken to the University Academic Council meeting room, the university's sports halls, concert hall, and were shown and told about a new joint project with the Kazan Museum Complex - an exhibition of paintings by artist Konstantin Vasilyev, which is located in the first floor hall. At the end of the tour of the university, the students from Yakutia were shown the conditions in which university students live in the Universiade Village. They saw with their own eyes the rooms and all the equipment of the student dormitory.

According to Danir Islyamov, Secretary of the Admissions Committee, not only the kids but also the accompanying teachers were amazed by the living and learning conditions.
Before our university, high school students visited five other universities in Kazan and admitted that they had not met such conditions and opportunities," says Danir Islyamov. - The guests from the Republic of Sakha, we can say, completed the series of excursions of schoolchildren to our university. During this time we have had several delegations, including those from Khabarovsk and districts of the Republic of Tatarstan. As history shows, such visits are not in vain and often they become decisive in choosing a university - children see with their own eyes the conditions for studying and living and it motivates them to enrol in our university".

Text and photo: Pavel Zheleznyak