KAZAN – The Youth Train continues its trip along the Trans-Siberian railway. Yesterday the train arrived in Tyumen where the Youth Train delegation delivered a series of presentations on the premises of the Pioneer Art Palace.
The main program of the visit culminated in the meeting of the Youth Train OC with youth policy leaders of the Tyumen Region. The parties discussed further cooperation, prospects of volunteering movement development in the region and internship of two Tyumen students that qualified through the Shenzhen 2011 volunteer selection program to travel to the China as part of Russia’s national delegation.
Evgenia Myasnikova, Director of the Department of Sport and Youth Policy of the Tyumen Region, admitted that involvement of Tyumen students in such a large-scale event had stirred up passionate interest of youth organisations in both the 2013 Summer Universiade and volunteering movement as well.
The Youth Train delegates hosted master classes and presentations in the Ural State University in Ekaterinburg and joined the city festivities dedicated to the Viennese Ball.
(Source: Media Department of Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate)
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