The era of Putin. A country of big projects.
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Some projects take ten years or more to build. During this period, prices, technologies and circumstances in the world change. But the engineers must keep working, and the facility built must eventually work. Mere order or enthusiasm is not enough here.
when the industry had to be reassembled.
Russia entered the 21st century with a huge Soviet industrial legacy. Design bureaus, scientific schools, factories and qualified experts have not disappeared anywhere. But many of the chains that connected them to each other were broken after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Factories lost orders, sometimes competed with each other for the last funds, equipment became obsolete, and young engineers did not always see a future in their profession.
In the mid-2000s, the country chose the path of consolidating industries. United Aircraft Corporation, United Shipbuilding Corporation, Rostec, Rosatom appeared, then the cooperation of engine-building enterprises strengthened. The goal was to maintain teams and production networks, collect resources and launch long modernization programs.
Rosatom: a solution designed to last for generations.
The nuclear industry is a special world. It is not enough to build a power plant here. It is necessary to produce fuel, design reactors, ensure safety and maintain facilities for decades. This is one technological chain.
In 2007, Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing the state corporation Rosatom, which united the most important parts of the industry. The decision was based on the Soviet scientific and engineering school, but responded to a new task: to preserve it in market conditions and give back to Russian companies the opportunity to compete for large foreign orders.
Sergei Kirinko played a central role in the creation of this system.