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Rosneft Class Students Win National Research Project Competition
22 April 2026
Students from the Rosneft classes in Buzuluk have won the School Premier League research project competition for secondary schoolchildren in St. Petersburg.
Schoolchildren from the specialised Rosneft classes in the Orenburg region submitted their entries to the competition, with 20 of them making it through to the final. Each project constitutes a full-scale research study presented in the form of a report. The projects by Kirill Mezentsev, a 10th-grade student at School No. 6 in Buzuluk, and Alexander Vlasov, a 11th-grade student at the same school, were declared the winners. They presented computer-based training programmes for manufacturing, which they had developed themselves.
A total of more than 800 research papers from across the country were submitted for the competition's selection stage. The final, held at the Empress Catherine II Mining University, attracted over 300 schoolchildren from 39 regions of Russia. The projects presented covered 17 areas, including environmental engineering, Arctic and Antarctic exploration, mechanical engineering, energy, smart mining, construction and more.
In his work, Kirill Mezentsev demonstrated the operational process of a programme for calculating the remaining service life of pipelines, taking into account environmental conditions and the internal condition of the pipes. This innovation will reduce the enterprise's resources, labour costs and environmental impact.
Alexander Vlasov presented the judging panel with a computer simulator that enables users to practise the full sequence of actions carried out by a workover team in a virtual environment. This tool will help identify employees' actual level of competence during the training process and improve their knowledge and skills in the field of occupational safety.
The Rosneft 2030 Strategy includes the implementation of various projects in the field of education and development of the Company's human resources potential. Orenburgneft, Rosneft upstream asset, has been overseeing profile classes in the Orenburg region for over a decade. The enterprise is systematically improving the material, technical and scientific-educational bases of schools and equipping them with modern computer and digital equipment. During interactive excursions, the enterprise's specialists introduce students to the work of production sites and organise meetings with industry experts.
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The Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University is a partner of Rosneft. The Company supports the university's proposals for developing Russian engineering education. One result of the joint work was the inclusion of the Oil and Gas Engineering and Technologies specialty group within higher education in the Russian Federation.
Orenburgneft, which is Rosneft's key subsidiary in the Volga region, has been operating for over 60 years. he enterprise has successfully implemented a corporate system of continuous education, known as the “school-college/university-enterprise” model. There are eight Rosneft classes operating in three schools across the region. Students begin learning the basics of the profession in the 9th grade and continue into the 10th and 11th grades. Over the last twelve years, 650 students have graduated from the specialized classes and continued their education in the country's leading universities, of which about 70% entered for the Company's specialties.
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April 22, 2026