Unmanned aerial vehicles. From device to choice of profession (textbook)

2026: Textbook Announcement

Publishing house "Enlightenment" together with the Circle Movement of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) has prepared the first textbook in Russia on unmanned aerial vehicles for high school students. The publication has passed a state examination and is included in the federal list of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. This became known at the end of February 2026.

The full title of the textbook is "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. From device to choice of profession. " It is focused on in-depth study of topics within the framework of specialized classes in Physics and Informatics, and can also be used in extracurricular work - in technological circles, children's technology parks and IT cubes.

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Фото: Enlightenment Publishing House

Vice-Rector of the Higher School of Economics, Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the National Technological Olympiad, leader of the working group of the Circle Movement of the NTI Dmitry Zemtsov noted that drones from a highly specialized tool have turned into a means of monitoring, agricultural work, automatic delivery and rescue operations. According to him, the industry is in dire need of pilots, programmers and engineers, and the new textbook gives schoolchildren the opportunity to try on the role of a drone or aviation system developer right in class.

The textbook covers the full cycle of drone creation. Its content is structured as follows:

• history of development and classification of unmanned aerial vehicles;
• design principles, system design and maintenance procedures;
• programming flights using computer vision and artificial intelligence;
• manual piloting and testing of aircraft systems;
• 3D modeling and prototyping of own devices;
• legal aspects - registration of a drone, coordination of flights and interaction with supervisory authorities.

Victoria Kopylova, vice president for publishing at Prosveshchenie Publishing House, pointed out that many Russian schools already have equipment for studying unmanned technologies. The inclusion of the textbook in the federal list, according to her, will expand the coverage of technologically oriented high school students and provide an influx of applicants to specialized programs of Russian universities^[1]

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