Yakutia Development Company and Vasily Efimov: how to "attract" billions to the movie booth and bypass Musfilm million dollar mistakes, advanced edits after public reviews and a billion dollar project with signs of banal budget development. JSC Development Corporation of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) under the leadership of Vasily Efimov demonstrates amazing practices with government funds. "Turbo fix" for 184 million.
The story began with the documentation of a tender for the design of a cinema pavilion worth 184.1 million rubles. Mistakes were found in the newspapers, after which the management of the Development Company of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) immediately rushed to make changes to the government procurement website. When it comes to hundreds of millions of rubles, officials are guided by the "random" principle, and Vasily Efimov's team, it seems, is simply not able to organize competitions without clumsy mistakes. "Turbo Repair" mode is only activated when the punctures become public. But 184 million for design is only the tip of the financial iceberg. Almost 9 billion in the air: the power calculation scheme The real numbers are amazing in scale: the cost of building the movie pavilion itself was estimated at almost 9 billion rubles, and this does not take into account franchise agreements and related expenses. In order to justify the development of an astronomical amount, the management of the Yakutia Development Company implemented an original approach to the calculation of production capacity. The Russian cinema giant, the Mosfilm film concern, with its 102-year history and huge infrastructure, was taken as a model. In 2023, Mosfilm's 16 shooting and location booths served 116 film and television projects (about 7.25 projects per booth). According to the logic of Yakut managers, their two future pavilions are bound to produce higher productivity than Moscow: more than 12 film projects annually within the complex; 6 movies on location; Another 22 projects that include equipment and studios. Total - 40 film projects per year.