Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev and Minister of Transport Andrey Nikitin familiarized themselves with the key developments of the advanced engineering school "High Speed Rail Academy" of the Russian University of Transport.
The Academy was opened in December 2023 following the selection results within the framework of the federal project of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia "Advanced Engineering Schools". The following areas of work are currently being implemented at the Academy: training of engineering personnel and specialists of the new generation, scientific, technical and expert support for the first high-speed highway – HSR-1 Moscow – St. Petersburg at the design and construction stage, the formation of an innovative base for the development of the country's transport industry.
The Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister were shown a digital model of the Moscow-St. Petersburg HSR section, created by students and teachers as part of an end-to-end engineering project. The digital model of the main infrastructure elements of the highway (railway track, roadbed, artificial structures, etc.) allows for an assessment of identified collisions at the design stage.
In the situation center, Vitaly Savelyev and Andrey Nikitin got acquainted with the construction monitoring system, which combines data from online cameras, UAV footage, satellite images and orthophoto plans of the high-speed railway construction sites. The data is updated in real time and shows the progress of work, the number of equipment and specialists, the use of funding and the results of eliminating expert comments.
Scientists from the High-Speed Railway Academy have presented the first measuring complex in Russia for monitoring the geometry of high-speed highway tracks. A special trolley, tested in real conditions, records the slightest deviations of the track from the design.
"The HSR Academy of the Russian University of Transport is a unique scientific center for training highly qualified specialists who will be in demand on HSR lines. Serious technological and personnel potential is being formed here, which will set trends in the development of the country's transport complex," noted Vitaly Savelyev.
Today, 230 students are studying at the Academy in six educational programs. Another 370 students will undergo training in additional professional courses by the end of 2025. The first intake took place in the summer of 2024 – 50 best third-year students from five transport universities in Russia.
The academy's infrastructure includes a multifunctional campus with 34 workplaces, three specialized educational spaces and two educational laboratories. This allows students to work in conditions as close as possible to real engineering practice.
"It is important that the implementation of scientific projects of the High Speed Rail Academy is carried out with the involvement of high-tech partners: JSC Russian Railways, Sinara – Transport Machines, the Moscow City Department of Transport. That is, this is not only research, but also testing of their results in practice with real customers of these projects," emphasized Andrey Nikitin.
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