Astra Laboratory opened in the Siberian Federal District

2023: Opening of the Astra Laboratory

Astra Group, Siberian State Automobile and Road University, DA IT Company, with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications of the Omsk Region, opened Astra Laboratory on October 24, 2023.

We have opened the first Astra Laboratory, in which students will study domestic IT products. In the future, they will be able to work in various organizations in the region and solve important tasks to ensure high-quality import substitution and information security. We really need such specialists. We plan to develop this area in education and will strive to organize such laboratories at the sites of other universities in the region, - said Ivan Ivanovich Krott, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Omsk Region, Minister of Education of the Omsk Region.

Astra Laboratory will train and certify students on Astra Group software products. Training is expected in the following disciplines:, operating systems computer networks,. information security Students will learn to work effectively with the domestic infrastructure stack, ON will perform project tasks, undergo practice and participate in the Astra-Career and Astra-Scholarship projects. In the academic year 2023-2024, Astra Group products will begin to study more than 100 students.

Digital and technical sovereignty is the task that the President sets for us. of the Russian Federation We are fulfilling these instructions thanks to the support of business, without which digital transformation would not develop at the same speed as it is happening now. It is important not only to create, domestic software but also to create those specialists who will be able to work in the domestic, ON so the regional government Omsk supports business initiatives and projects aimed at -, - ITeducation says Natalya Konstantinovna Shilkina, Deputy Minister of Digital Development communications and the Omsk Region.

For technical equipment of the audience, exclusively domestic hardware solutions were chosen - monoblocks server both the companies "" and Graviton switchboard " router Eltex," the interactive panel BM Stark Baikal. On workstations server and preinstalled the OS. Astra Linux The laboratory is provided with everything necessary for comfortable study.

For more than 25 years, our university has been training specialists for the information technology industry. Network interaction with Astra Group provides a practice-oriented approach to graduate training. The actual complex of equipment, servers, software, which is especially important - domestic production, is the basis for the formation of multidisciplinary competencies of the future specialist. The implementation of the national project "Digital Economy of Russia," the achievement of technical and technological sovereignty is quite feasible in the Omsk region and beyond thanks to such formats of interaction - the business of an IT company and a university with the support of the Government and relevant ministries - the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications, said Zhigadlo Alexander Petrovich, rector state automotive of the Siberian-Road University, doctor of sciences pedagogical, candidate of technical sciences, associate professor.

One of the important priorities of our company is high-quality training of IT personnel. And we focus on key regions. The opening of the Astra Laboratory in Siberia will increase the level of expertise of IT specialists in working with domestic solutions. This will help speed up the import substitution process in the Siberian Federal District. The support of the Government of the Omsk Region and effective cooperation with the Siberian State Automobile and Road University made it possible to implement and launch this project in a short time. We are grateful to our partners for their cooperation and look forward to the further development of this area in the region, said Fyodor Kirdyashov, head of the education department of Astra Group.

The partners of Astra Group as of October 2023 include over 400 educational organizations, and more than 13 thousand students are trained on the developer's specialized web portal. The company has created a network of more than 100 competence centers, where about 22 thousand people have been trained.