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2 october 2024

A unique opportunity to complete an internship at BELAZ was realized by members of the team of the Saint Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II (SPSU), winners of the international championship in solving mechanical engineering cases BELAZ-CHALLENGE 2024 among students of leading technical universities of the CIS.

The certificate for completing this internship was one of the prizes for the winners of the student challenge held in March this year. The vocational training program for SPSU students was developed so that future specialists in the mining industry could see the key stages of the creation and production of BELAZ mining equipment. Our guests began by studying modern trends in the design of dump trucks, loaders, bulldozers, and ended with the shipment of BELAZs to the places of operation.

During the internship, the students of the Mining University were introduced to advanced technologies related to the use of robotic systems for welding and cutting metal, CNC machining centers and other high-precision equipment. And, of course, they were introduced to the conveyor and slipway assembly of large and extra-large-capacity dump trucks.

– The scale of the enterprise, its production capacity, the efficient technologies and equipment implemented, the high level of qualification of the workers are amazing and admirable, – shared his impressions Ivan Rusakov, a 5th-year student of the mechanical engineering faculty of St. Petersburg State University. – Other moments surprised and pleased us as well. Firstly, the fact that BELAZ manufactures the vast majority of components on its own and thus minimizes dependence on suppliers. And secondly, this is the level of production culture, which is outwardly manifested in the cleanliness of the workplaces, the order in the workshops, the well-groomed territory of the plant.

The bright final chord of the guys' internship was the festive events dedicated to the Machine Builder's Day. And a special place among them was occupied by the international championship of the "BELAZ Operators Club".

– When entering a specialty related to mining, a student often does not understand what field he is going into. And visiting such a powerful enterprise as BELAZ, examining the production of quarry equipment in detail, asking questions of interest to designers, technologists, representatives of the workshop management is simply necessary for a future specialist in mining and transport systems. Therefore, I consider the internship, during which we got to know BELAZ in detail, to be extremely useful! – expressed her opinion, a 4th-year student of the same faculty Elizaveta Tarabrina.

The fourth BELAZ-CHALLENGE was held at our enterprise on March 27-28, 2024. Eight university teams, uniting more than three dozen students from Belarus, Russia and Uzbekistan, met in intellectual battles on the fields of this championship. Having collected the maximum number of credit points, the SPSU team became the winner of the Grand Prix and the champion title, whose participants were awarded a certificate for an internship at BELAZ.