On May 17, at the Interregional Center of Competencies - the Kazan Technical College of Information Technology and Communications, the opening ceremony of the qualifying competitions for the final of the fourth National Championship "Young Professionals" WorldSkills Russia - 2018 was held in Kazan. Deputy Prime Minister of the republic – Tatarstan Minister of Education and Science Rafis Burganov, First Deputy Minister of Informatization and Communication of the republic Dmitry Vandyukov and Technical Director of the Union “Young Professionals” (Worldskills Russia) Alexey Tymchikov took part in the event.
About 150 competitors and 140 experts from 57 regions of the Russian Federation, including Tatarstan, take part in the competitions.