For Irkutsks 355th anniversary, students and teachers from Irkutsk and German Pforzheim created an unusual childrens playground, Irkutsk Kremlin, to be installed in May at 18 Rossiyskaya Street. The project became part of cooperation between the two cities and united experience in wooden construction and restoration. In early May, Irkutsk participants will go to Pforzheim to make a wooden bicycle garage.

By the 355th anniversary of the regional center, Irkutsk and German students developed an unusual playground for children. The play complex called “Irkutsk Kremlin” will be installed as early as May at 18 Rossiyskaya Street.
From April 12 to 22, students and teachers from the school named after Alfons Kern from the twin city of Pforzheim worked on creating this module together with students from the Irkutsk College of Architecture and Construction.
And at the beginning of May, Irkutsk students and teachers will go to Pforzheim, where they will make a wooden bicycle garage, the press service of the Irkutsk city administration reports.
This visit by the German delegation took place within the framework of the cooperation agreement between Irkutsk and Pforzheim. This is not the first visit by European craftsmen to the regional center.
In October 2013, carpenter-restorer and teacher at the Alfons Kern vocational school, Frank Guthier, had already come to our city to take part in the summer workshop “Wooden Heritage of Irkutsk”.
During the first visit, an agreement was reached to implement a joint project between the two educational institutions of Irkutsk and Pforzheim to exchange experience in the field of wooden construction and restoration.
– We are delighted with Russia and Irkutsk! My students are this far from home for the first time. Irkutsk made an indelible impression on them. They flew here knowing practically nothing about Russia and not knowing a single word in Russian. In two weeks they made new friends, they are already communicating without an interpreter, and they are flying home with tears in their eyes. But now they have someone to visit in Irkutsk and something to see in Irkutsk. I think this is only the beginning of a great friendship, - said the head of the German delegation, Frank Gauthier.