Schoolchildren from the Sverdlovsk region will begin implementing the ideas of the SVO participants.

Military personnel returning from Ukraine will become mentors for teenagers in a new “patriotic workshop,” a representative of the “Defenders of the Fatherland” foundation said in Sverdlovsk region Elena Ladygina. 

According to her, the children will explore the "10 Facets of Patriotism," implement the ideas of the SVO participants, and learn to independently create museums about the war in Ukraine. The SVO members themselves will continue to be trained in public speaking.

On the eve, the head of the federal fund "Defenders of the Fatherland" Anna Tsyvyleva stated that in 2025, more than 270 participants in the war with Ukraine became "mentors" for young people Sverdlovsk regionThey engage with schoolchildren at "Lessons of Courage," conduct "Conversations on Important Things," produce videos, publish books, and open patriotic clubs and sections. And this trend is nationwide.

Even a criminal past and participation in mercenary activities do not interfere with the “new life”. Samara region previously convicted of rape and murder Victor Taydakov After returning from the war with Ukraine, he held training camps for schoolchildren as part of the municipal project "The Hero's Path." 

Wagnerite Artem Dilmuradov, convicted of participating in the brutal murder of a family in Volgograd, held a "class hour" at school Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where he taught children about family values. And the former mercenary Yuri Piskovets in the Novosibirsk, previously convicted of assaulting a police officer, will teach schoolchildren how to defend the Motherland.