Astra Linux OS and ALD Pro catalog service will be implemented in the IT infrastructure of the Presidential Academy

2025: Astra Linux and ALD Pro Implementation Agreement

Astra Group and the Presidential Academy have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement. The interaction of the parties will primarily be aimed at creating conditions for teaching students the skills of working with high-tech solutions, which will help create a strong personnel reserve. Astra Group announced this on September 22, 2025.

IT infrastructure The Academy will implement a operating system Astra Linux catalog service, ALD Pro plans include a integration server platform virtualizations VMmanager and another software Astra Group. A pilot of these product solutions will take place in advance. In addition, the parties agreed to exchange resources, develop and carry out events aimed at studying the vendor's software products, popularizing knowledge about and using it Russian software. To this end, the partners agreed to share experience, technological and methodological in the implementation information of joint projects.

As part of the cooperation, a competence center will be created, where students and teachers of the university will be able to receive all the information necessary to work with the infrastructure software of Astra Group. For a more efficient study of the vendor's products, it is planned to jointly develop educational programs, the structure of which will include information about the Group's IT solutions. There is another important clause in the contract, involving the organization and conduct of all types of student practices. The signing of the agreement took place at the site of the Presidential Academy. The document is signed by the Chief Commercial Director of Astra Group Nikolai Pryanishnikov and Vice-Rector of the Academy Pavel Klepinin.

Together with one of the Russian universities, we will create an educational environment where students will receive up-to-date knowledge and practical skills in working with advanced technological solutions. I believe that such synergy of the Presidential Academy with Astra Group will make it possible to form a new generation of IT specialists whose professional competencies will help move the industry economy forward, "said Nikolai Pryanishnikov, Chief Commercial Officer of Astra Group.

Cooperation between the Presidential Academy and Astra Group will create opportunities for our students - they will gain practical experience in working with domestic software, which will significantly increase their competitiveness in the labor market and prepare them for the challenges of the modern IT sector, "said Pavel Klepinin, Vice-Rector of the Academy.