Book Giving Day in Metsamor
On February 18, Metsamor High School No. 2 (RA) held a holiday on the eve of the Book Giving Day, a national holiday celebrated annually on February 19 on the birthday of the greatest Armenian poet and writer Hovhannes Tumanyan.
The event was the final one in the framework of the interactive campaign “Give a Book”, organized by Rosatom SC. The campaign took place since the beginning of February in the social networks of the educational project Look Around Armenia, and everyone could take part in it.
“The main idea of the campaign was to increase interest in reading, to form an attitude towards reading as a pleasure or hobby. Rosatom State Corporation as a knowledge corporation pays a lot of attention to education, and books are a source of new information, they help to broaden your horizons and increase your professional level. It's nice that we managed to attract more than 500 people to the campaign”, said Vladimir Gorn, Deputy Head of the Regional Center of Rosatom SC for Eastern Europe.
Rusatom Service JSC donated more than 80 works of Russian and foreign writers to students of secondary and high schools in Metsamor, including “The Master and Margarita” by M.A. Bulgakov, “Demons” by F.M. Dostoevsky, “Great Expectations” by C. Dickens, “Romeo and Juliet” by W. Shakespeare and other masterpieces of classics. Various encyclopedias were also given to the library of the Metsamor school - Natural elements, Legends, traditional legends, the Earth and the whole world, the Universe Known and much more.
“The benefits of reading are difficult to overestimate - thanks to books, we broaden our horizons, enrich ourselves internally, get a unique opportunity to move into other realities. Our team, as part of the Knowledge Corporation, is ready to continue to gladly support such educational initiatives”, said Evgueniy Salkov, General Director of Rusatom Service JSC.
The campaign was also supported by employees of Rosenergoatom Concern JSC, TVEL Fuel Company. Schools received popular science literature, nuclear power training manuals and books using augmented reality technologies or AR technologies as a gift.
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Rusatom Service JSC is part of the Electric Power Division of the Rosatom State Corporation. The company provides a full range of services and supplies required for operation and repair to foreign VVER NPP. The company is present in almost every country with operating VVER NPP outside Russia.
Rusatom Service JSC holds leading positions in the markets of China, Bulgaria and Armenia and acts as a general contractor of works for lifetime extension, implementation of scheduled preventive maintenance and upgrading the equipment at VVER NPP.
