On 15 December 2020, Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science and Irkutsk National Research University organised an international student research conference on Problems of Young People in the Twenty-First Century. Its five themes were career choice, the value of life, parents and children, behavioural difficulties involving alcohol, drugs and theft, and patriotism.
Serikbol Zhadyra, a third-year Russian-language teaching student in the School of Humanities’ Department of Foreign Languages and Educational Studies, presented Career Choice as a Youth Issue under the supervision of Russian lecturer Chingis Butukhanov and placed second.
Saint Petersburg State University students Liao Yilin and Li Jizhen placed first; Irkutsk State University student Wang Tongnan placed third.
On behalf of the university community, we congratulate third-year Russian-language teaching student Serikbol Zhadyra and wish her continued academic success.