Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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The results of the company's work over the past period were discussed, as well as current activities, including the development of the federal road network within the framework of the national project "Infrastructure for Life", and issues of training personnel for the industry.
From the transcript:
M. Mishustin: Dear Vyacheslav Petrovich!
You are the head of a state company in the field of road construction, which is an indicator of the state of the economy in general and significantly affects related industries. The area of direct responsibility of your company is the implementation of infrastructure projects that are significant for the country. One of such flagships that your organization is working on is the M-12 "Vostok" highway. I know that this work is actively underway.
The President has set us the task of increasing the share of federal highways and roads in the country's backbone network to 85% within six years. And this work has been continuing since this year within the framework of the national project "Infrastructure for Life".
What are the results of the first half of the year and how are things going in general?
V. Petushenko: Dear Mikhail Vladimirovich!
Over the previous years, namely over the 16 years of our company's existence, the road network that we have built has increased by 2.5 times. And, probably, the main result is that due to the attraction of extra-budgetary financing – and this is more than a trillion rubles – more than 3 thousand km of new roads have been built, which are part of the core network of federal roads, and high-speed ones at that. At the same time, we are forming a framework: north – south, west – east. And the most important thing is, of course, the "Russia" route from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.
You launched the construction of the M-12 highway in July 2020. Today, the construction task to Kazan has been completed, and we will have completed it in 2023.
The key moment of this year and the construction of the M-12 highway in general today is the delivery of a 275-kilometer section in Bashkiria, Perm Krai and Sverdlovsk Oblast (opened with the participation of the President), which made it possible to reduce travel time for trucks by almost 4 hours, and for cars – by 6 hours.
The main effect is that starting in 2022, we have seen an increase in traffic every year. This year, the growth in trucks is 9%, and freight turnover is constantly growing. We see that the number of trucks is growing every day. This once again shows that the route chosen in 2020 has brought a very great result.
I can say that 45% of this facility was built using off-budget financing. In particular, these were funds from the National Welfare Fund and a bond loan from a state company, which is currently being serviced.
And it is very important that we were able to reduce the construction time due to technical solutions, due to organizational issues. And we took steps that allowed us not to increase its cost. Here is Dyurtyuli – Achit: I can say that if we had built it according to the classical scheme, we would have had to bring about 12 million cubic meters of sand there, but we built everything from local soils – of course, with modern technologies – and saved, according to our estimates, up to 58 billion rubles.
In addition, we have already completely replaced the cable-stayed system technologies on the section from Moscow to Kazan. And we built a magnificent bridge across the Oka. Together with Severstal, together with the scientific community, we completely replaced the cable-stayed system. Technologies associated with continuous concreting allowed us to reduce construction time.
I must say that our technologies are developing. For example, all asphalt concrete mix is now produced at domestic plants. We have moved away from any dependence.
M. Mishustin: It is very important not to slow down the pace of work. It is necessary to complete all planned projects on time. It is obvious that this is actually a catalyst for economic growth and tourism development. New highways, of course, must be convenient, comfortable for travel, for passengers and meet all modern requirements for road safety. I ask you to keep these issues under control.
Another question. Not a single large-scale project can be implemented without a sufficient number of qualified personnel. These are not only workers who participate in this, because road construction is a very complex matter. This is also a large number of scientists, engineers, designers, technologists.
How do you work with personnel? Do the programs "Professionality", "Strategy-2030", the program of advanced engineering schools help you here?
V. Petushenko: It is, of course, impossible to build high-quality roads today and increase labor productivity without professional, trained specialists.
We have been working on this program for several years now. We are working quite actively in several universities, our specialists give lectures. And we have gone even further – in order to provide career guidance to the children, we are starting to work with schoolchildren. This year we are opening a class at RUT (MIIT) in order to prepare professional specialists at this stage. This year we are opening a special admission with the opportunity to work in the state company "Avtodor" in several universities.
We understand that this is one of the most important tasks. We communicate with the Znanie society and with professional communities and hold competitions. We have young people from 24 regions of the country who took part in competitions. The winners come to our facilities from new regions, not only from the central ones. We are expanding our geography. The guys come to our facilities – to the southern facilities, to the east of the country. I conduct professional training with them myself, I give lectures myself, we communicate with them, attract guys from an early age, arousing interest in our profession.
In terms of blue-collar jobs, this year we will hold the third professional skills competition. Moreover, it has already become international. Last year we had specialists from Kazakhstan, Belarus, China. This year we are expanding both the geography and the composition of the participants: these are young specialists and experienced ones. The profession needs to be promoted and its best qualities demonstrated.
M. Mishustin: Vyacheslav Petrovich, it is very important to attract young people to your industry. It is interesting. You can not only earn high salaries, but also see the whole country. And most importantly, make a great contribution to the development of the economy of our beautiful, wonderful Russia.
Good luck!
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