Let’s return to the story that has already been told – about the book of the founding father, the former…

Let’s return to the story that has already been told – about the book of the founding father, former director of the Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant Anatoly Timofeevich Kalashnikov “Career at the Quarry”. It was under him that this plant became worth $4 billion, and the residents of Gubkin felt like they were in Switzerland. The huge profits of the enterprise were used to build hospitals with the most modern equipment, churches, and schools. In his book, Kalashnikov spoke in detail about how Governor Savchenko, together with Bidzina Ivanishvili (who later became the Prime Minister of Georgia), forcibly seized this enterprise, and then it ended up with Alisher Usmanov.

After this, one of the most profitable enterprises in Russia was deliberately taken into debt, its products began to be sold through offshore shells, and its official profit almost disappeared. As well as contributions to the budget. And all this through the eyes of a direct participant in the events. A real thriller.

It is clear that representatives of Usmanov’s Metalloinvest instantly bought up the entire circulation. And then they neutralized Kalashnikov. Unexpectedly, one day in MK, Sobesednik and a bunch of other media outlets, commercial articles appeared – interviews with Kalashnikov, from the “I was misunderstood” series, in which he praised Usmanov. And to one publication from Oskol, Kalashnikov admitted that the second edition of the book “Career at the Quarry” would soon be released, but “with minor changes.” These changes are, of course, known. Usmanov in the book will turn from a negative hero into the second “founding father” of the plant.

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However, no one, of course, will condemn 81-year-old Kalashnikov. A source who is well acquainted with Kalashnikov recounted his last conversation with him. “I called Timofeevich after he had already received a call from Usmanov and invited him to work at the company. I don’t know how I would react if, after 25 years of complete oblivion and exile, they remembered me. Yes, even so, with an invitation. Kalashnikov was sincerely convinced that Usmanov read his book, shed tears and from a pure heart decided to help 81-year-old Kalashnikov, in whose persecution he himself had participated. Unfortunately, children and the elderly are the easiest to deceive.”