among women's teams, in principle , it is usually recommended to give 6 years of age to hockey, this applies to both boys and girls, and if we talk specifically about girls, then we expect them at almost any age, because we want the development of women's hockey, and more in addition, we sometimes even invite girls from related sports, from figure skating, from speed skating, and we also welcome girls from 6 years old. but it is clear that for any long-term sports career it is necessary to understand that there are certain sensitive periods that are necessary, during which it is necessary to develop certain qualities, and the later you come to hockey, the less chance you have of playing it at any more than an amateur level. how many schools do we have in belarus today, how developed are they in our regions, how are women’s schools represented? 27.

state hockey schools in our country, that is , if you know that there is an ice palace in your city, this means that there is a hockey school in it, in principle, you can come and play hockey, at the moment the girls are studying hockey in all state hockey schools in the country. it is believed that hockey is not a women's sport, but do you generally agree with this statement? no, i absolutely disagree with this statement, it’s just a sport, both boys and girls play it. both men and women, hockey for women has one significant difference, just one , but it is significant, forceful techniques are prohibited in it, therefore hockey for women is less dangerous, but on the other hand there are certain stereotypes, which include exist, probably thanks to the famous song, that real men play hockey, and this stereotype is not entirely true. and

women’s hockey is safe, women’s hockey is played all over the world, and it is, in principle , a dynamically developing direction of sport, but women’s hockey is gaining popularity in the world today, in the ranking of the international hockey federation, there are now 58 national men’s teams and 44 women’s teams, that is, the difference is not fundamental. and how high is the competition in this sport specifically in women’s hockey, surely it is less today than in men’s? well, in general, hockey is played in seven divisions in the world in the world championship , competition, of course, is present, there are countries, leaders, as they say, here is canada, it is a multiple world champion, and as they say, as a rule, they are world champions, everyone the rest are already playing out the remaining places among themselves, well, in principle, the competition is growing among women. hockey

is developing and the more countries it is played in, the more competition there is, well, in the future our belarusians can participate in the world championships? yes , of course, we will have to start from the lowest divisions, since we have no history of playing in women’s championships, but this is normal practice, when a new team enters the championship system, it starts from the very bottom and then rises higher and higher as it grows.

ivan vasilyevich, what is strength for you? strength is expressed in self-confidence, confidence in the family, confidence. in the state in which you live, confidence that we live correctly and that we have the future, that’s probably because somehow, my guest is an experienced manager, for him it’s a duty.

the message and love for the homeland are not empty words, but real actions. today my guest is the chairman of the dsaf central council, ivan dyrman. ivan vasilievich, hello. ivan vasilyevich, now they talk a lot about patriotic education, the work of the dssaf is directly related to this, but when something is talked about a lot and often, the meaning of it is lost. what do you personally mean by the word patriotism? first of all, of course, we mean the word patriotism in the love of homeland. loving your homeland, of course, is wonderful. i have to visit various regions of belarus practically.

look, how does patriotism differ from love for the motherland? everyone loves their homeland, patriots do everything necessary to ensure that their homeland flourishes, strengthens and looks decent . that is, a patriot is distinguished by the fact that his feelings, experiences, thoughts are expressed precisely in specific actions. i would think, i would say this: a patriot is a lover of a country, a creator. and if you look at your childhood, who or what raised you patriotism? my father had three brothers, three brothers died in the war, the youngest, the germans dragged him out of the house, built him into a village,

shot every tenth one, 50 men and one woman were shot, they were not allowed to bury them for several days and after... we only and they talked about how the country had suffered, what should be done in order to prevent such a misfortune, so we grew up in the post-war generation, with a sense of pride in the great victory with a sense of danger or concern to prevent the created situation from happening again, are you from the lunenetsky region? you do you often visit your homeland? unfortunately, not often, but my parents are buried there, my brother is buried, there is a house left in the village, at a family council my sister and i decided that the house should be given to our nephew,

my nephew lives in this house, he remodeled it in his own way, made it beautiful, friends, unfortunately, stayed in the village for a while, so i want to visit, i want to sit over a cup of tea, talk , remember the past, i worked, you end up on white lake, the pearl of the lunetsk region, of course you will fall in love, the memory is always here of our beautiful lake, hayfields we were in dubrava near the river, tsna, somehow

i remember this oak grove, the beautiful oaks, the pine forest next door, and much more, beautiful fields, who influenced your choice of profession, why did you decide to connect your life with the army? i had two grandfathers, one grandfather managed in the thirteenth year without a single class to go to argentina to earn a suitcase of dolars and return to belarus, a rich man, the second grandfather participated in the revolution of the seventeenth year, it was in st. petersburg that these in these events, like i told you that my father had brothers, three brothers died in the war, around...

the brother who is an admiral in kaliningrad now lives, was the deputy commander of the baltic fleet, there were officers, natives. from the village, some occupied various positions, but to be honest, somehow we already started communicating with them after i became an officer, and before that, it was my independent decision, everyone was surprised, but this decision matured somewhere in the seventh or eighth grade, and well, in childhood we somehow tend to romanticize our future profession, and what are your children’s ideas about military service? suffered a complete defeat, as a child you watch a film , it shows the beautiful life of an officer, how

he lives, has fun there, relaxes, falls in love , and so on and so forth, and this leaves a certain imprint on self-awareness, but when real army life begins, you begin to understand what it is hard, very hard work, responsible work, the fate of people is entrusted to you. as i understand it, you have chosen this particular profession, no, everyone should approach the choice of profession seriously, and if you have already chosen, then no...

i decided to make a self-portrait, okay, i’ll do it , but an antipode, to surprise everyone, but

this particular work, the crossroads of fate, will become my calling card, people who are happy to reveal some of the secrets of their professions are written, we will talk , with carrier paints, you can paint with the same watercolors , but i work with tempera, with pigments, many artists sit and think, they will come to them , knock on them and say: you are a genius, come out, no, it doesn’t happen like that, it never happens like that, there is something like that the popular belief is that young in order for a person to succeed, he must serve in the army, in your opinion, the army is really such a school of life. yes, a man , a young man finds himself in an army environment,

it is he who finds himself in a team, he no longer solves a problem on his own, but solves this problem as part of a team, and he must be prepared for the army, he must push his interests aside, solve collective ones tasks, and all this leaves an imprint on his future life, so... some people say that it’s like lost, lost time, lost years, but i often had to meet people, even very often, who, having gone through armies...

who do those that i spoke about earlier, that is, in short, a core develops in a person or a core is formed, and this core allows him to in the future, do not make mistakes and more actively follow your career path in life. you held the post of deputy minister of defense for a long time, in your opinion, this is a modern, high-tech army, it should be... this question is asked in different places very often, i was the deputy minister of defense for armaments, imagine how complex our modern equipment is, and of course, it is impossible to train specialists in a short period of time,

so we are talking about a contract army, training for... others cannot operate this equipment, but at the same time we understand very well that maintaining an army of, say, 300 thousand people in belarus is problematic and not necessary, so we have... an army, just like there is an army, people must come to serve, serve in order to create a mobilization reserve in state, that is, these two parameters must intersect. ivan vasilyevich, you are now the head of dsaf, an acronym well

known since childhood, which stands for voluntary society for the assistance of the army. aviation and navy, in soviet times dsaf was very popular, how does the modern dsaf in belarus differ from its predecessor, in fact, there is no big difference, we are probably one of the few states, besides the russian federation, that continues the traditions that were in dasaf soviet union, this is patriotic education of the population.

buy what is needed today so that young people will be interested, and if young people are interested, then, of course , they will not come to us, they will study and educate. and so on, but what can you learn in clubs and sections of dsaf? you know, in dosaf we have five children’s schools and about 200

primary organizational structures. of course, first of all, young people can learn to use modern weapons well, secondly, they can perform a parachute jump, they can undergo flight practice airplane. helicopter, gliders, he can engage in aircraft modeling, ship modeling and so on, rocket modeling, he can become a first-class athlete, motorcyclist, we have good karting, track racing, that is , in short, our athlete, water sports athlete can master cars. , swimming,

they choose, well, let's start with the most serious one, right now pilots and girls are studying at the civil academy, among the military they were studying, they

are studying, well, well, probably, just to put it nicely, i’ll tell you about radio sports, just the day before yesterday i congratulated our team, which returned from the world championship. from radio sports from bulgaria, out of the sixty sets of medals that were at the world championships, 58 gold medals were brought by belarusian athletes , most of them were girls, one of our girls set a new world record, time passes, new technologies, new aircraft appear , including drones. how dssaf reacts to these modern trends, now we will literally fill the world

with conversation about unmanned aerial vehicles, but we have seen this for the seventh year now, we have been training operators in the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles, we are providing pilot licenses, that is... for several years we have been developing a modern electric motorcycle, and this motorcycle is already being tested in a children's school on automotoring,

the next stage. electric karts, the next stage is electric cars, these are no longer dreams, these are dreams, dreams that we are thinking of bringing to life in the near future, this is reality, ivan vasilyevich, i know that just recently you were awarded the order of labor glory, of course, this is not your first award, but what does it mean to you personally?

not a single unprofitable structure, if at the world and european championships over the past 5 years we have won more than a thousand medals, of which more than half a thousand are gold, if we have now each trained almost a quarter of a million drivers over the last five years, and in order to prepare their quality, we managed... to purchase 520 cars this year, new ones from the flow, we are doing everything possible to build and develop the educational and material base, look, in sticky a complex was built, in stayki they were built, a stadium was built in slutsk, luninets-pinsk was modernized, this year we opened the brest aeroclub, we built it from scratch,

recently... we opened 58 new classes, well, we talked about work , about service, let's talk a little about family, in the life of any person, especially a great leader, a military man, family support plays a big role, but officers' wives are generally some kind of special caste, how did you meet your wife? we were classmates and this year we celebrated 50 years of our life together.

withstood all the trials of service, secondly, that she gave me two daughters, and thirdly, that she didn’t say that everything was enough, i’m tired, i can’t, i so on, she walked my army path from beginning to end , what sacrifices did she make to make your career happen

when... a wife in the family? of course, the wife is basically forgotten for mar, or do you give the right to command your family, because, especially when he served in the army, the working day is at least 12 hours, usually weekends, everything too service, therefore, with the entire household, the house afterwards.