Caring for heroes

Students of the USUE College made trench candles for soldiers who are in the area of a special military operation. Future business managers made over a hundred sources of heat and light with their own hands.

Students will remember for a long time an atypical practical lesson in the laboratory of the USUE Department of Quality Management and Expertise of Goods and Services. The guys, under the guidance of the senior lecturer, Nadezhda Danko, learned to make trench candles. These are long-burning devices that can serve as a source of heat and light for several hours without interruption. They won’t blow out in the wind, they won’t get wet, and you can extinguish them and re-light them. In the field, soldiers also use trench candles for cooking.

To make such a universal heat source, you need only three components: a tin can, corrugated cardboard, and paraffin. During the class, the students learned the specifics of the and successfully made a large batch - more than a hundred pieces. The main nuance is working with paraffin. Since this is a highly flammable mixture, it is melted on a water bath to a translucent viscous consistency. The process is not fast - it takes about three hours to make one candle, and the hardening process lasts up to four hours.

“We made ourselves useful! Winter is approaching and our defenders will need trench candles on the front,” Artem Garifullin, a student of group 23-03 K1, said.

A batch of trench candles made by USUE College students was handed over to military unit 61207 in Yekaterinburg. The parcel will then be shipped to the area of the special military operation. The master class on making trench candles struck a chord with the students. The work will be continued.

Ural State University of Economics is one of the first Russian universities to support the special military operation. Since the SMO start, USUE has sent almost 11 tons of humanitarian aid to Donbass.

Students of the USUE College made trench candles for SVO fighters