Welder's Day is the most festive day for a welder! May holiday - Welder's Day in Russia.

The last Friday of May is a very bright day. After all, it's Welder's Day. But even if you bring together all the sparks of this profession, they will not be able to overshadow its importance and seriousness. After all, the strength, durability and safety of operation of the most complex structures, mechanisms, buildings and structures depend on the professionalism of the welder.

The holiday does not yet have an official status, but it has been celebrated for more than 20 years. And the date of the emergence of the profession itself is considered to be 1802 - the year when V. Petrov discovered the effect of an electric arc. The technologies of modern welding work have gone far ahead, although they still require high skill and jewelry precision. Therefore, the main thing in this profession is a person. Welder with a capital letter. Master of his craft.

Welding is work with heavy metal.
Strong arms, trained eyes.
You created a lot of strong structures,
Welder, we are celebrating your day now.

You are a representative of an important profession.
You are not afraid of any height.
And you dive bravely into the depths.
You are good at welding.

We wish the welder today
Good work to continue.
New victories on the noble path,
And get a lot of money for work!

Someone cooks flared jeans
Someone cooks delicious borscht,
Well, you weld fasteners.
You are a welder. You can!

Happy Welder's Day. I wish that the seams hold securely and firmly, that there will always be work with good pay. Let the work of the master be afraid, let the moments of life be bright, like splashes of metal.

Welding is hard work
People are right.
Who is associated with this work,
He has his own rank.

They have a love for work
Everything in their hands is on fire.
You will find many welders
Strong in spirit, like granite.

We wish them good health
Faithful, loving hearts,
Because in life and work
Every welder is a creator.

No extra moves and no fuss
You can easily cook whatever you want:
Pipes, structures, structures -
You can do anything, there is no doubt!

I wish you on this bright date
Stable and very high salary!
Let health be strong as steel,
Let any detail be welded firmly!

You connect metal
You skillfully cook it.
The welder is cool, at least where.
Be healthy always.

Let worries not scare
Living beautifully does not interfere.
Love luck.
Congratulations on your day!

For metal structures
The best time has come
You can cook everything
Weld and attach!

You are the best welder
Congratulations on this holiday!
May success await in work,
You will be the happiest of all!

Wearing a face mask
Around the fountain of beautiful sparks,
The work of the welder is in full swing,
He was smart, collected, very fast.

Happy holiday today
You, my welder, I want
Let the metal be so harsh
You will have to shoulder.

You accept on the day of the profession,
Beloved welder, congratulations.
Let your business go well
Let luck pursue.

I want a decent salary
Recognition and prosperity,
Let your favorite work
Helps make wishes come true.

My friend, I want to congratulate you on the day of the welder.
What I want, you know very well yourself.
Your work is important, we all know about it.
How difficult it is - we see in the eyes.

I wish you good health
More happiness, joy, love.
During our beautiful feast
I want there to be no longing in your soul.

Wherever you look - everywhere your work.
We are sincerely grateful to you.
Let life be in business, but not at all in worries.
And we want to win in any fight.

Starfall sparks
In your hands they sparkle
Happy Welder's Day
Congratulations today.

I wish you
To be on "You" with fire,
weld metals
Reliable strong seam.

Let your shield
The mask will be true
And all your dreams
Come true, like in a fairy tale.

Metal structures surround a person everywhere: construction, industry, agriculture, space technologies - not a single sphere of life can do without the work of a welder. Despite the fact that the holiday is not celebrated at the official level, workers in this area deserve special attention on their professional day.

The professionalism of the welder ensures the reliability, safety and durability of the most intricate devices, mechanisms and structures. Modern welding works are very different from the first weldings, which were invented in 1802. Despite a huge leap in progress over the centuries, the specialty still requires jewelry precision and craftsmanship from the master. Innovative equipment can work wonders, but the main thing in the profession is a person.

Story

More than seven centuries ago, for the first time in Asia Minor, primitive work was carried out to smelt metal from ore. Then mankind figured out how, by melting iron, mechanisms can be made.

When performing the first welding process, a person pursued the following goals:

• combination of different materials within one object;
• giving a metal product a certain predetermined shape;
• attachment to the main subject of overhead blanks.

In the IX - XIII centuries. With the development of metallurgy and metalworking, welding began to progressively gain momentum. In the 19th century, the Russian metallurgist P. Anosov invented a hammer and an anvil designed for forging iron. In parallel, the Russian scientist V. Petrov discovered the electric arc and electric welding.

More than 200 years ago, the first metal welding was carried out. The profession will never lose its relevance and will always be in demand.

Types of modern welding:

• electric welding - connection of metal using an electrode and current;
• laser welding is carried out by a laser;
• gas welding: use of acetylene and oxygen;
• diffuse welding joins ceramic and steel.

Responsible work requires concentration, courage and courage of a person.

Traditions

The modern society of welders celebrates a festive date on the last Friday of spring. Traditionally, welding masters have been honored since the late 90s of the last century. Informal events are held at enterprises, mutual congratulations from industry workers are heard, and valuable gifts are presented to labor veterans.

Russian welders will celebrate their professional holiday on the last spring Friday of this year. These brave conquerors of the electric arc rightfully deserve attention on this beautiful day. For the first time, Welder's Day began to be celebrated at the end of the 20th century.

In the 19th century, namely, in 1802, the Russian scientist V. Petrov discovered an electric arc. Later, in 1935, a modern electrode was invented, but the technical capabilities of that time did not yet allow the use of an open arc to melt metals.

Only by the end of the 19th century, the Russian inventor Nikolai Benardos carried out the first metal welding. It was he who used the arc for melting and welding metals, by adding a metal rod - an electrode. More than 200 years have passed since then, but the profession is becoming more and more relevant.

Nowadays, welding has become a real art. Many artists make their metal sculptures and exhibit them in the finest art houses. The cost of many copies of criticism is estimated at a fortune and they are created by welding.

Welder's Day: the role assigned to women

Women also, for the entire time of the existence of the profession, have mastered the skills and subtleties of the case. As it turned out, fragile and delicate creatures are quite capable of such complex and hard work.

During the Second World War, many of the fair sex worked for the good of their homeland. This fate did not bypass the women welders. They toiled and welded the thick metal of tanks and fighters as the men valiantly defended their home.

And these days, meeting a woman with a burner is not so difficult. It's not just men who win prizes at the annual AWS Americas. So in 2009, Karissa Love became the winner of the competition.

America, one might say, was swept by a new trend. Many welding courses have already opened on the territory of the country, and every year more and more girls become their applicants. Of course, for most women, this profession is associated with art. They strive to create metal sculptures.

Welder's Day: when is the holiday celebrated in Russia

Despite the fact that the holiday has no official status, over the past 30 years it has been celebrated annually. This year, the holiday will be held on May 25 in the country.

Welders are involved in many industries, including: the automotive industry, metallurgy, shipbuilding, mining and many others.

It can be said with confidence that without welders it is impossible even to imagine any kind of production, and not a single industry can be full-fledged. This work is very responsible and dangerous. Human lives sometimes depend on the precise, refined movements of the hand of the master.

For young people who have completed the nine-year plan and do not want to study further, there is a prospect of obtaining a sought-after working profession. In the labor market, oversaturated with lawyers, economists, accountants, there are always places for workers. The profession of a welder is perhaps the most demanded in heavy industry, metallurgy, civil engineering, and therefore it is honorable and highly paid. Welder's Day 2017 is a professional holiday that has been official for the third decade. It is not a day off, however, production managers congratulate their irreplaceable specialists, encourage especially distinguished workers with cash bonuses, valuable gifts, and vouchers to rest homes.

Welder's Day in Russia 2017

It often happens that young professionals, having received a diploma of higher education, do not find a job they like or are not satisfied with the low salary. After working for some time in production, some young engineers realize that working specialties are paid much higher, have career prospects and are very honorable, and change their white collar for working overalls. But some working specialties require compulsory, albeit short-term, training, such as the profession of a welder. And after completing only a 4-week course, the guys pick up a welding machine, join the ranks of workers and legally receive congratulations on the Welder's Day 2017. This specialty is very multifaceted, it allows you to achieve excellence in one direction, but more often In total, professionals master all possible specializations:

• contact welding;
• laser;
• thermite welding;
• gas welding;
• electric and gas welding;
• on diffusion-welding installations;
• on electron beam devices.

This is a truly masculine profession that requires endurance, a firm hand, skill, it is included in the category of hazardous work, so workers in this specialty have many benefits. The health hazard is that the work is associated with high voltages, significant temperatures, gas emissions, ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Often welding work is carried out at height. Of course, workers are equipped with special protective equipment, but still, care and caution should be their constant companions during the performance of work. The significance of the specialty determines honor, respect and the presence of a professional holiday. In Russia, Welder's Day 2017, which falls on May 26, will be celebrated by rocket builders, shipbuilders, the automotive industry, machine tool builders, bridge builders, gas workers and oil workers. In each of these industries, welders occupy leading positions.

Welder's Day - date

Every year, the celebration takes place on the last Friday of May, so that after the official celebration at the workplace, on weekends people can gather with their families at home or spend warm days on the eve of summer in the bosom of nature. Some work teams organize fishing or barbecue trips on this occasion. The weather is favorable, and outdoor recreation is simply necessary for those who work in difficult conditions. Welder's Day postcards and pictures on the Internet show the courageous faces of workers who have chosen this profession for themselves. Young people choosing a craft should pay attention to the fact that this is a very profitable specialty. In any city in Russia where construction work is constantly underway, the profession of a welder appears on the list of vacancies. Having gained skills, you can endlessly hone your skills and literally bring it to jewelry accuracy, and this is very decent money, highly qualified specialists are always worth their weight in gold. Currently, welding machines are also manufactured in a compact design. A small suitcase purchased for your own use will serve as additional income. In summer cottages, in elite cottage settlements, in apartments, emergency moments sometimes occur with pipes, or in the process of repairs, heating systems, gas equipment are moved, fences are installed and other routine problems are carried out. This is where the need for welding arises, then a private specialist is invited to solve the issue. And the better the master, the more in demand and highly paid his services. By mastering such a valuable specialty, young people can reach a very decent level in their careers and, with good reason, celebrate Welder's Day in 2017 in Russia, it will be possible to go to work abroad, where the value of this profession is even higher.

Where can I get a profession of a welder in Russia

In addition to the courses already mentioned above, professionals are trained in secondary specialized educational institutions. In schools, in addition to direct training in the specialty, students receive secondary education. It is very important in modern society to be comprehensively developed - this is the need of any self-respecting person. After all, from how educated you are, the society and family around you are created. What son will not be proud of his father, who is a master of his craft and will be able to answer any question, and for whom Welder's Day, the date of his father's professional holiday, will become a respected and significant event.

In developed countries, working specialties have long been elevated to the proper height, getting such a valuable specialty as a welder there costs a lot of money, so not everyone can afford such a luxury, but paying qualified specialists makes it possible to lead a non-poor life. In Russia, the cost of education is available to anyone, but health must also be at the proper level, because the specialty is not easy. Having shown themselves on the good side in the process of studying, young people immediately receive recommendations for a decent, well-paid job. The date when the Day of the Welder 2017 is celebrated will also become their holiday. And this valuable specialty will bring prosperity to the family and the respect of others.

For the last 10 years, representatives of the younger generation, who have just finished school, now and then strive to get a higher education. It is clear why: in order to acquire a high professional and life status, as a result, a prestigious highly paid job. However, each of the graduates forgets about another way of their development, which can bring no less income.

This is the acquisition of a specialty that involves not mental, but physical labor. For example, the profession of a welder falls into this category. Its representatives even have their own holiday, like doctors and teachers. The Day of the Welder in Russia is celebrated annually on the last Friday of May. In 2019, the Day of the welder in Russia is celebrated on May 31.

History of Welding

Holiday Welder's Day in Russia is a great occasion to look into history.

The emergence of the process of smelting it from ore is considered the moment of the emergence of primitive work with metal. For the first time it happened 700 years ago, somewhere in the region of Asia Minor. Following smelting, people introduced welding itself, thanks to which it was possible to produce iron objects of a single structure, but at the same time consisting of different parts, simply tightly soldered together. This event marked the beginning of the Iron Age. The welding business of those distant times was based on two basic processes: heating the metal and its subsequent forging. The main reasons for the use of welding at the very beginning of the development of the latter:

• giving a metal product a specific shape;
• a combination of dissimilar materials within one single product;
• increase in the size of a metal part;
• attaching overhead blanks to a metal object.

The welding business received a rather progressive development in the 9th - 13th centuries. This is primarily due to the huge role of metalworking and metallurgy. Our country was distinguished by a high level of development of these areas of activity among Western European states. The key at that time was the production of high quality carbon steel. Forge welding gave more than 70% of metal products.

But, unfortunately, Russia could not hold such positions for too long. Historical events - the invasion of the Mongol-Tatars - led to the fact that blacksmithing and welding, as well as other crafts, experienced a noticeable regression. Our wise ancestors managed to restore, revive and improve this area of ​​activity only in the XIV century, towards its end. But many innovations were introduced: qualitatively new enterprises appeared in the field of metallurgy - mine, the use of a water engine began. In addition, blacksmithing and welding began to be used for the production of military equipment, in particular guns, squeakers and other types of weapons. The following centuries are marked in the history of "metal" processes as a period of honing their skills by artisans. Representatives of the profession did not just make durable, high-quality products from natural materials, but also focused on the appearance through the use of decorative elements. A method of casting with molten bronze arose, which was used in the production of cannons. Welding began to be used for the manufacture of railway rails. With the increase in the quality level of forge welding, the requirements for the master who carries out this process also grew. And the representatives of the profession showed themselves from the best side.

Progress in the further development of forging and welding arose even thanks to the replacement of manual labor by the work of machines and machine tools. So, for example, mechanical hammers appeared instead of the former hammering specialists.

Masters from the Ural region reached the highest heights in this field of activity. The apogee of their triumphant success came in the 18th century. In the 19th century, the Russian metallurgist P.P. Anosov invented a hammer designed to forge bloomery iron. At the same time, forge welding technology underwent great positive changes. This was mainly due to the fact that a bright, unrealistic light of achievements in the field of chemistry, electrical engineering, and physics began to dawn on the scientific horizon. It is this moment that is also the moment of the emergence of the profession of welder itself, more precisely, its modern version. And here appears the name of the Russian scientist Vasily Petrov, who discovered the famous effect of an electric arc. Following this event, a new thing happened - electric welding arose. Thus, the profession of a welder is already about 200 years old.

Specialty welder

On this festive Welder's Day in Russia, let's talk about the heroes of the occasion. The profession of a metal specialist, who combines various parts of this natural material into a single whole, is of great practical and social importance. This is due to the fact that metal is used today everywhere and everywhere. Virtually no industry can do without it.

The most important are mechanical engineering, metallurgy, agriculture, energy. Metal is the most popular material in modern life, as it is strong and durable. We can draw the following conclusion: the profession of a welder will never be able to lose its relevance. Moreover, the level of the latter will always be on top. Graduates of such educational institutions also have no problems with employment, and the salary, as mentioned above, is quite decent. However, do not flatter yourself, because the profession of a welder has significant drawbacks.

Firstly, a metal specialist is forced to work in a hazardous industry, which cannot but affect his health during the work process and in the future. The reason for this is the heat and vapors released by the welding machine when it comes into contact with the metal.

Secondly, no matter how the welder would protect his face with a mask, his eyesight still suffers. Indeed, in the process of welding, the specialist is exposed to infrared and UV radiation. The eyes also suffer from the brightness of the electric arc.

Thirdly, the general working conditions leave much to be desired. As a rule, these are construction sites or street conditions, where the impact of external environmental factors is not excluded.

That is, it turns out that the welder must have excellent health, especially - no problems with vision, hearing, lungs, nervous system. Among other things, a person who wants to work in this specialty must make sure that he does not have dermatitis and allergies.

To obtain the profession of a welder, it is necessary to graduate from one of the educational institutions, depending on the desire to achieve a certain level of skill: a vocational school (lyceum) or a college. You can go to study even after nine, even after eleven classes. The specialty is called “welder of electric welding and gas welding works”. There is another option - it is called "adjuster of welding and gas-plasma cutting equipment." A graduate of a specific educational institution should be able to carry out the following operations:

• preparatory work;
• direct welding of parts, their cutting;
• elimination of defects;
• quality control.

We sincerely congratulate all welders on the occasion of the Welder's Day in Russia. Be lucky in everything! Let your life flow interestingly and peacefully, and your health will always be strong!