Participants from Irkutsk region returned from the 53rd All Russian Student Squads rally in Vladivostok with three awards, including two first places and a medal for contribution to the development of the putina squads movement. The 37 member delegation was one of the largest at the forum, where more than a thousand students from 63 regions discussed the movements development and took part in workshops and round tables. Ahead for the members are rest, studies and a new regional student squads rally, which will be held in Irkutsk on October 27.

Participants of the 53rd All-Russian Student Squad Rally, which took place on October 6-8 in Vladivostok, have returned to Irkutsk. Students from the Irkutsk Region won three awards at the All-Russian event at once: 1st place in the mini-football competition as part of the Student Squads Sports Games in team sports; 1st place in the All-Russian video clip competition "Labor Summer 2012" (the "Baikal" squad); and a medal from the youth of the All-Russian public movement "Russian Student Squad" for contribution to the development of the movement of fishing squads.
The day before, on October 11, the delegation from the Irkutsk Region was greeted at the railway station of the Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station by representatives of various Irkutsk student squads.
- A lot of positive emotions. A rich educational and business program. The hospitality of the organizers. Many impressions and new acquaintances, - shared Anastasia Klimenko, a participant in the 53rd All-Russian Student Squad Rally and a member of the student teaching squad "Comrade".
The delegation from the Irkutsk Region, which included 37 people — members of 6 student squad associations and veterans of the student squad movement, was one of the most representative at the All-Russian Rally. In total, more than 1,000 people from 63 constituent entities of the Russian Federation took part in the Rally.
The three-day Rally program included round tables on the most pressing issues in the development of the student squad movement, as well as master classes in the following areas: construction, teaching, and fishing squads; conductors' squads; commissar and commander work in student squads.
Ahead of the student participants of the All-Russian Rally are rest and study. And already on October 27, the members of the student squads will gather again, this time at the Regional Student Squad Rally, which will be held in Irkutsk.
Student labor squads remain one of the most popular forms of seasonal employment among young people. Support for the student labor movement is provided by the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region within the framework of the long-term target program "Youth of the Irkutsk Region" for 2011-2013. In the third labor semester of 2012, more than 3,000 young people were employed in various student labor squads in the Irkutsk Region.