Partners of the CASE-IN Championship: ALROSA

For the second year in a row, ALROSA has been a strategic partner of the CASE-IN championship.

Today, ALROSA is developing 10 kimberlite pipes and 16 placer deposits in Russia, mainly in Yakutia, as well as in the Arkhangelsk region. Mining is carried out mainly in permafrost conditions and a difficult sharply continental climate. Advanced technologies and highly qualified specialists help the company achieve success.

ALROSA extracts diamonds from open pits, underground mines and placers. The Company's facilities are unique in their mining and geological characteristics and have no analogues in the world.

The ALROSA Group employs about 35,000 people, mainly in Yakutia.

The company values its employees and is proud of their professionalism, so it puts a lot of effort into being an attractive employer and a socially responsible company.
Today, the average salary of ALROSA employees is 2 times higher than the average salary in Yakutia and 3 times higher than the average salary in Russia.
The company implements a number of corporate social programs for employees and their families: it provides cultural and sports facilities and programs, educational and professional development opportunities, free medical care, housing programs and mortgage assistance, non-governmental pensions.

ALROSA pays great attention to the well-being of local communities, supports infrastructure projects, universities, schools and kindergartens, hospitals, sports and cultural institutions in Yakutia and the Arkhangelsk region.
For the first time, ALROSA became a partner of the CASE-IN championship in 2019. The company's specialists acted as experts at the qualifying stages and at the finals of the Championship.
Addressing the finalists at the awarding ceremony of champions and prize-winners in 2019 in Moscow, the Director of the Scientific Research Geological Enterprise of ALROSA Alexander Tolstov noted: As a Soviet-trained person, it was not entirely clear to me what this method was. However, after taking part in this event, I realized that the case method is quite progressive and allows the guys to immerse themselves in the problem. There is a geologist named Oleg Mikhailovich Kuvaev, who says that you and I are doomed to one thing – to work, and the work of geologists is the best doom in the world."

Head of the Personnel Selection and Development Department at ALROSA Natalia Petukhova At the final of the championship in 2019, I shared my impressions of the championship.: "We saw so many bright eyes, heard so many new ideas – the guys who worked on our cases reacted with trepidation to the tasks and felt like a part of our big company. I want to invite them to practice, after that they will be able to refine their talent directly in our company."

According to the results of the championship in 2019 11 students completed internships in ALROSA divisions.

"The main prize for me was the opportunity to complete an internship at ALROSA. My dream of being a competent engineer at a large enterprise is becoming a reality.". − shares his impressions Artyom Trutnev, student of the Ural State Mining University (Yekaterinburg), captain of the Zhilka team, champion in the field of Geological Exploration in 2019.

In 2020, engineering cases were developed again based on materials and with the participation of ALROSA specialists for participants of the Student League of the CASE-IN Championship in the following areas "Geological exploration" and "Mining".

Task 2020

Students of geology, in accordance with the assignment of the case study, develop measures to increase the efficiency of diamond mining operations within the Markhinsky site. The task of the participants − analyze the geological conditions of the field and identify the most promising areas for diamond mining operations.
Mining teams are creating solutions to reduce the pollution of the atmospheric environment of the Yubileyny quarry in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

The qualifying stages with the company's participation are held from March to May in 10 cities and 14 universities in Russia. More than twenty ALROSA experts will evaluate the decisions of future geologists and miners, as well as share their experience and knowledge with the participants of the qualifying stages.
The best students of the Technological Modernization season will be able to complete internships and internships at ALROSA enterprises in Mirny and Arkhangelsk.
Graduates who have completed an internship or internship will be invited by the company to find a job.