p Victor Korolev, a fifth year student at a mechanical department, earned the respect of his comrades and two years ago he was unanimously elected deputy to the Frunze District Soviet of Moscow.

p Victor was a conscientious worker. After graduating with excellent marks from an auto-mechanical secondary school he enrolled at the Moscow Automobile Institute. There too he emerged as an honours student and soon earned the right to a Lenin scholarship. He is the group’s monitor, and a very fair monitor, as the boys say. This perhaps explains why his group is considered one of the best in the institute.

p Sometimes we forget one simple truism—it is worthwhile having an example to follow, whether in work or in studies. The boys in Victor’s group know that he is very serious in his studies, that he takes the best summary notes from lectures, and that he absorbs knowledge because he knows that 128 it is the key to good work for the benefit of the people. In work he is also one of the first. He made a good impression in a student builders’ detachment in Roslavl, and a year later he was nominated chief of a detachment in Astrakhan.

p “He is a surprisingly hard worker,” says Grisha Lomazov, one of his fellow-students.

p When the house-maintenance office needs a bus for an excursion, or assistance in arranging a meeting with students, they always apply to Victor. These are all trifles, at first sight, but it is these trifles that in the final count make up the complex duties of a deputy, and these trifles entail important consequences. The hockey team of the housemaintenance office holds second place in Moscow’s Gold Puck championship. The boys always win prizes in skiing and shooting competitions. Setting aside the sporting side of his work, we must concede that he has succeeded in winning the kids away from "street pleasures" and providing them with an interesting and instructive pastime. This is no trifle.

p Victor’s comrades have a very high opinion of him. They point out that everything in life interests him. He is very tactful and sympathetic. Even while working on his diploma project he finds time to go to the institute and help to arrange a meeting of juveniles and foreign students studying at the institute. He really works with all his might and main.

Victor Korolev is about to graduate from the institute. The prospect of interesting work now lies before him. We may be certain that in all circumstances Victor will remain true to himself and that he will not spare himself at any job.