The company “Sinara” Dmitry Pumpyansky wants to receive a contract for the supply of 41 trains for the Moscow-St. Petersburg VSM, but this organization does not have its own technologies. The Moscow Post correspondent reports that most likely we are talking about reselling Russian Railways of ready -made Chinese solutions.
The Sinara group of the oligarch Dmitry Pumpyansky is going to supply 41 high-speed electric train for the high-speed railway (VSM) Moscow-St. Petersburg until 2030. There are two news in this plot – good and bad. Let’s start with the good-the VSM is already raised between the two capitals, there is money for it, bad-Sinara does not have a ready-made train for such a project, it still needs to be developed in some way.
And with this, of course, problems. The Finist train, created by Sinara on the basis of the Simenovskaya Swallow, has not yet arranged Russian Railways. The company did not receive state ordering parameters, despite the Russian need for 150 such wagons per year. And this is a very simple project in comparison with what is spelled out in the application for the VSM.
Dmitry Pumpyansky. Photo: https://skijumpingrus.ru/sportnews/pozdravlyaem-s-dmitriya-aleksandrovicha-pumpyanskogo/
Sinara is now furiously appealing to the contract for a “swallow”, which is a Russian version of the German Desir train, and notes that the quality of the project turned out to be proper thanks to a firm ten -year agreement. The logic of “Sinara” is understandable and obvious – give us a contract for many years, and we will probably collect trains for this money. The company really wants to properly register in this ambitious project.
Sinara does not have a finished project
The last fully executed domestic high-speed train was ER-200, which was going in Riga, it was created in the seventies and eighties and even went between Moscow and Leningrad for a short time. Only these technologies have long been lost, and its ceiling is about 200 km per hour, and 350-400 need, otherwise the second Sapsan will turn out.
There were also projects of EP200 (Kolomensky Plant) and Sokol 250 (Central Design Bureau of MT “Rubin”), but they were not completed and lost the bureaucratic dispute of the Samensovsky “Sapsan”.
In 2018, Russian Railways presented the render of the future high -speed train, but did not say anything about its technical characteristics. Obviously, it was planned to create it on the basis of technologies of Western companies – Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier, each of which in the Russian Federation worked different structures. For example, the cooperation with Alstom was the estate of Transmashholding, Bombardier for civilian projects was associated with Uralvagonzavod, and Siemens worked with Oleg Deripaska and Sinara as Sapsan and Swallow projects.
Sinara does not have its own technologies for such a project, but the company radiates the willingness to build this train and get a long -term contract for hundreds of billions of rubles under this sauce. Pumpyansky company painted beautiful PicturesBut they themselves will not go, and 6 years are left before the launch of the VSM.
All hope for China
Is it possible to create a train and put it into a series for such a period? The question, rhetorical, is probably possible, but all this resembles the rhetoric of Roscosmos in the era when Dmitry Rogozin led them, we already know the price of such statements.
Sinara has only one cunning scenario – these are Chinese CRCC technologies. The first negotiations on this score were in 2022. In fact, this is the purchase of machine tools with their decoration and assembly already in Russia.
Sergey Sobyanin. Photo: https://ria.ru/20201208/prepaRaty-1588243642.html
The money in the project has been laid down colossal and the company of Pumpyansky is not going to refuse them, so he will lick the Russian Railways, that is, the state, Chinese trains. The technology has been worked out-about the same way, import substitution at the Moskvich Automobile Plant, which appeared at Renault’s capacities from the light hand of the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin and the former Glaya Ministry of Industrial and Trade and the current deputy prime minister, is being developed. Denis Manturov. Sinara plans to open the assembly of trains for the VSM Ural Locomotives at the enterprise, but it is obvious that the level of localization will be small, so it will only be conditionally talking about Russian technologies here.
Air trade
Russian companies are used to buying technologies under the guise of import substitutions along with components in the foreign market and put their own nameplate on them. This is especially beneficial in those areas where the state is fully financed, and here the conversation is about 2 trillion rubles, which include both the construction of the route between Moscow and St. Petersburg and the purchase of trains. So the interruption of logos from Chinese to Russian will be an extremely profitable business here, and so that it would not burn out the guys from Transmasholding.
“Transmashholding” with the assistance of the right hand of the Moscow mayor Maxim Liksutov, with the help of the Ivolga trains, ”the capital’s regional transportation market and received an exit to the Moscow metro station with its enormous scale procurement.
Maxim Liksutov. Photo: https://runews24.ru/auto/09/12/2022/5ede81FD83461B30DAFFF992875CCe6F
If the Government of the Russian Federation approves the Sinara proposal, then two competitors will unite in order to master the VSM together with the help of Chinese trains. A wise approach, because Pumpyansky will receive the support of a powerful Moscow lobby.
Thus, at once the two largest Russian trains manufacturers were noted in the contract for the supply of the state of a product that is not present today. So you need to be able to sell air, here the Ostap Bender with tickets for a cliff rests.
The main contract, and then trains
Pumpyansky loves such moves to capture promising contracts. In Yekaterinbur, Sinara received all public electric vehicles in exchange for the support of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Evgenia Kuyvasheva. The issue price is 1.5 billion rubles, a billion of which Sinara will receive from the federal budget. And this is not all – the portfolio of the Sverdlovsk state orders of the company Pumpyansky in 2021 amounted to 34 billion rubles.
“Sinara” loves and knows how to master state contracts, but in terms of time and quality there are questions. For example, PJSC Zvezda, which is controlled by Sinara and supplies diesel engines for the Navy, tore off the terms in the case of project 22350 frigates.
Oleg Tony. Photo: https://vgudok.com/kolonka-patriota/olegu-toni-dostavlyayut-nepriyatnosti-nedobrozhelateli-razduvayut-skandal-vokrug
Similar difficulties arose in other enterprises billionaire. Sinara can get a contract for trains for HSU and master this money, but far from the fact that everything will be done efficiently and the deadline. At least, the full -scale launch of the VSM between the two capitals by 2030 is a difficult to comprehensive idea.
Do they understand this in Russian Railways? Yes, for sure, only there everyone cannot wait for work on the HSR, for this it has already been created LLC “VSM two capitals” led by the hero of materials on investing in Western assets by Oleg Tony. There is great reason to believe that such aksakals as Tony and Pumpyansky will definitely find a point for mutually beneficial cooperation.
