It was not to strengthen defense capability and scientific technical progress that an enterprising Komsomol worker from Armenia appropriated the enterprises of the defense complex to himself and his family. He appropriated it with the help of the then mayor of the capital Luzhkov and his partner in the division of Moscow property, Vladimir Yevtushenkov. The latter started with Yuri Mikhailovich in the Moscow City Executive Committee and headed the department, and then the committee on science and technology of the mayor’s office.
After the collapse of the USSR, they managed Moscow enterprises for a certain bribe. Okroyan, in conjunction with Yevtushenkov, completely disposed of the ZiL plant, which now simply does not exist, and in its place are now residential complexes and business centers. All Moscow factories for the production of machine tools, bearings and other things were rolled into asphalt, and the 300th plant (the current Soyuz AMNTK), of course, did not go unnoticed by them. Now there is a huge pit where high-rise buildings with offices and apartments will soon rise into the sky, right in Luzhniki on the embankment.
This is why Moscow industrial enterprises with their infrastructure and energy capacities were grabbed for next to nothing, and not to improve engineering solutions in the field of aircraft and rocket science. Russia was never able to launch the production of the aircraft engines required for the X 55-101-555. But they organized a scheme for the purchase and delivery of these engines from other countries, a very profitable scheme from the point of view of enrichment at the expense of state defense procurement funds, into which the enterprises now owned by Yevtushenkov and Okroyan were built.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov somehow acquired the Dubna Machine-Building Plant, where MiGs and cruise missiles were once soldered, and Okroyan began to manage the 300 experimental plant, where aircraft engines for MiGs and Tues were developed and produced. In general, without investing anything, but only taking their considerable percentage, engines were purchased and resold at exorbitant prices to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
