In the city, a competition for the construction of electric depot for 20 billion rubles has been announced on the Neva. But is the project viable with such managers?
As it became known The Sankt-Peterburg Postthe company “Metrostroy of the Northern Capital” (general contractor for the construction of the subway in St. Petersburg) announced a competition for the development of documentation and the construction of the Krasnoselskoye Electrodedo. The new object will serve the Krasnosel-Kalininsky metro line.
Recall that Metrostroy Northern Capital Metrostroy is a common “child” of VTB and the governments of St. Petersburg: this education was replaced by the scandalously known company Metrostroy, which was noted by the breakdown of many projects in North Palmyra.
But, as it turns out, the Metrostroy Northern Capital JSC, despite the solid patrons – the government of St. Petersburg and VTB – not everything is going smoothly, in addition, the office has already been noted by certain criminal cases and detentions, and the series of corruption scandals in the metro construction began with the advent of Alexander Beglov as the governor.
Promise 20 new stations
Metrostroy Northern capital JSC was created by the VTB group in October 2021. 65% of the shares of companies belongs to the government of St. Petersburg, 35% in the VTB group.
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The agreement on joint activities was reached in order to ensure the uninterrupted and continuous construction of the metro objects in St. Petersburg.
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The main activity of the company is the design, construction and reconstruction of the metro objects in the city.
Today, Metrostroy of the Northern Capital JSC is building four metro stations: Mountain Institute, Theater, South-West (Kazakovskaya) and Putilovskaya. Work has already begun to extend the Nevo-Vasileostrovskaya line towards the Stations “Bogatyrskaya” and “Kamenka” (these stations are already available on paper, it remains to be built).
This should look like the Miner Institute metro station. Photo: https://strtorg.ru/stantsiya-gorniyy-institut-spb.html
Until 2032, Metrostroy of the Northern Capital JSC promises to build 20 new stations. And reconstruct 12 old ones.
But the laying of new metro stations in St. Petersburg is seriously inhibited against the background of corruption scandals. Moreover, the Beglov team – as the media write – seriously reduced the costs of building an subway, which is why the statement of Governor Beglov about the appearance of 89 new metro stations by 2050 looks unconvincing!
This, in particular, mentions “Petersburg 2”.
Today, the St. Petersburg Construction Committee promised to pass 3 metro stations at the end of 2024: Putilov, Kazakov and Mining Institute. But will they pass?
Recall that the biggest problems arose with the Putilovskaya metro station: as a result, tangible troubles occurred with the general director of Metrostroy Northern Capital JSC Vladimir Schmidt (already former).
Schmidt’s business
Vladimir Schmidt was unexpectedly detained in December 2023.
Vladimir Schmidt. Photo: https://domgadalki.ru/foto/direktor-metrostroya-severnaya-stolitsa
This was reported “Business Petersburg”.
The interest of the investigation was associated with the expenditure of funds for the construction of the Putilovskaya station. The reason for the investigation was unclaimed work on the construction of a cross -out unit between the metro station Putilov and Kirov Plant. The construction site itself began, despite the negative conclusion of the state examination, as they wanted to create the appearance of the deadlines. This was reported “Komsomolskaya Pravda – St. Petersburg”.
As a result, the construction was stopped, the site was returned to its original state. Damage – 60 million rubles.
In December 2023, the Oktyabrsky District Court appointed a ban on certain actions for the ex-chairman of the Committee for the Development of the Transport Infrastructure Andrei Levakin and the former General Director of the Metrostroy Northern Capital JSC Vladimir Schmidt. They are forbidden to leave the city.
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And the decision to dismiss Vladimir Schmidt was made in Smolny. By the way, in the city administration they were unhappy with the pace of construction.
But today Mr. Schmidt works as deputy chairman of the city committee on transport.
Vladimir Schmidt is healthy and cheerful. Photo: https://www.dp.ru/a/2023/12/13/v-peterburge-zaderzhali-bivshego?ysclid=lyh8tizcf2324424697
It seems that they don’t know what the right hand does in Smolny, and what is the left?
Raider seizure?
We move on.
The Investigative Committee also opened a criminal case of bribery at the Metrostroy Northern Capital JSC. This was reported “Fontanka”.
On November 15, last year, an engineer of the metro construction department was detained: a criminal case was opened against a 37-year-old employee under an article on receiving a bribe. According to investigators, he received 3 million rubles. Earlier, the former head of Krta (committee on the development of transport infrastructure) Sergey Kharlashkin was also taken into custody on suspicion of exceeding official powers, and he could turn the schemes with Vladimir Schmidt.
By the way, the most loud scandals began after the liquidation of Metrostroy JSC.
As local journalists wrote, officials from the team of Governor Beglov could help the enterprise fall into decay. And bring to bankruptcy, and the process itself in the expert environment is called raider seizure.
This, in particular, reported Peterburg2.ru.
Recall also that Metrostroy JSC will bankrupt since 2020, and Metrostroy Northern Capital JSC, mostly property of its predecessor enjoys lease.
It turns out that they came to everything ready, but why then the construction of new stations of the St. Petersburg subway is so slowed down?
