Published on: 2026-10-06
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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This academic year, nearly 56 thousand students from pre-professional classes in the capital will get acquainted with potential employers and immerse themselves in real production processes. More than 400 Moscow enterprises and organizations have become partners of the program, it was reported. Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development.
“In the capital, we strive to provide high school students with every opportunity for a conscious choice of career path. Career orientation excursions to key enterprises of the capital are an integral part of the Moscow education standard. At meetings with experts, the students see how the professional environment in their chosen industry is organized, learn about the most important work processes, and receive helpful advice. This academic year, all students of our pre-professional classes—almost 56 thousand people—will participate in the program. More than 400 industrial partners have joined it—these include high-tech manufacturing, financial organizations, medical institutions, IT, and media companies,” said Anastasia Rakova.
Students of engineering classes will visit leading high-tech enterprises in the capital in aerospace, energy, food, light, and other industrial sectors. Among them are residents special economic zone “Technopolis Moscow,” as well as enterprises of the state corporations “Rostec,” “Roscosmos,” and “Rosatom.”
Students of media classes will visit the sites of major media holdings and editorial offices, meet with representatives of journalist unions, and also undergo internships at city venues, including capital museums and the MosKino film park. During the classes, they will get acquainted with exhibitions, shoot reports, conduct filming, write articles, and also try themselves as camera operators, journalists, and PR managers.
IT class students will be at the sites of IT companies. For example, at the digital technology school “School 21,” the students will get acquainted with big data analysis and learn to create their own artificial intelligence agents, while at the company “1C” site they will observe development processes and solve team programming cases. In addition, high school students have the opportunity to participate in career guidance classes at the “Yandex Museum,” learn about professions in the IT field, and try themselves in various areas — from digital product development to marketing.
Students from entrepreneurial classes will visit banks and other financial organizations, meet with experts in the field of economics and business. In addition, the students will attend economic forums and other business events to get acquainted with experienced entrepreneurs and find potential partners and investors. All this will help the students build their own business plans. Among the project participants are Sber, LLC “RVB,” and the business club “Atlants.”
Students of psychological and pedagogical classes will become acquainted with the work of specialists from various fields — from clinical and child psychology to extreme and zoopsychology. The project’s partners are specialized organizations in the city involved in psychological support for the population.
Starting from mid-October, tenth-grade students in medical classes will visit city hospitals, clinics, and ambulance substations. For eleventh-grade classes, a series of meetings will be held with medical professionals from various specialties — therapists, surgeons, allergists, immunologists, anesthesiologist-resuscitators, traumatologists, orthopedists, oncologists, gynecologists, and laboratory diagnostics doctors.
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In September, a training program was launched for students of entrepreneurial, engineering, and IT classes of 30 Moscow schools technological entrepreneurship. High school students, together with experienced businessmen and experts from leading companies, study the specifics of launching technology startups. The result of the training will be a project defense — five winners will receive cash prizes, the opportunity to intern with the course partners, as well as participate in career guidance consultations and personal meetings with specialists. The program organizers are the metropolitan Department of Education and Science, Institute for the Development of Specialized Education of the Moscow City University of Education and “School 21”.
Pre-professional education is a unique project of Moscow designed to help high school students consciously choose their future profession and their own educational path. Pre-professional classes are open in more than 75 percent of the city’s schools. More than half of all high school students in the city study in these classes.
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You can learn more about the capital’s pre-professional classes at official website, as well as on the channel “Mospredprof” in the messenger “Max”.
Education in pre-professional classes promotes early career guidance for students and aligns with the goals of the national project “Youth and Children”. More details about Russia’s national projects and the capital’s contribution can be found at special page.
To find out how the capital has changed over recent years, what initiatives aimed at making city residents’ lives even more comfortable are currently being implemented, and what awaits Moscow and its inhabitants in the near future, one can see in the large-scale special project on the portal mos.ru, dedicated to the development of key sectors of Moscow. These include transport, industry, healthcare, education, sports, and construction.
On the project page “Education” tells about how educational institutions are transformed during reconstruction under the program “My School” and how the update affects the quality of education. The re-equipment of colleges allows students to acquire practical skills during their studies and obtain professions that are in demand on the labor market.
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