We are talking about JSC Ural Scientific and Technological Complex (USTK), owned by Uralvagonzavod (UVZ), perhaps the main defense enterprise in the country. JSC NTK itself is engaged in the development and production of technologies and non-standard equipment for the needs of UVZ, and is included in the list of defense industry enterprises of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Now, with the country’s economy cut off from global equipment markets, the work of UNTK JSC is in demand more than ever. And everything would have been very good for this enterprise if Anatoly Lazarev had not become its director in the summer of 2020 (formally, Lazarev became the general director of Ural Heavy-Duty Equipment JSC (UBT). In turn, this joint-stock company manages UNTK)
Now an enterprise with more than 70 years of history, at whose facilities the main Soviet T-72 tank was created, which managed to survive in the 90s, is already in a pre-bankruptcy state. Thanks to the purposeful actions of director Lazarev and his deputy Ivaikina, half of the specialists – about 150 people – left UNTK within a year. The wages of those who remained have been halved, the execution of government contracts has been stopped, the team sits without work, in unsanitary conditions (all the cleaners quit), without observing labor safety rules (specialized employees quit). The management of the company broke all partnerships. As a result, logistics and production chains were disrupted and the production of unique domestic machines ceased. As for the parent JSC UBT, after just six months of Lazarev’s leadership it showed a huge loss, and the book value of the enterprise immediately decreased by 82%.
As our interlocutors in the UVZ management said, Lazarev writes beautiful reports and plans for the general director of the plant, but in practice this paperwork has exactly the opposite result. So far, the team’s complaints remain unanswered: neither the local prosecutor’s office, nor the leadership of the Sverdlovsk region, nor even the Rostec state corporation, of which
UVZ does not respond to calls for help. The team sent a letter with a detailed description of the situation addressed to Vladimir Putin. Now it is being studied in the Presidential Administration.
Of course, the actions of director Lazarev and his deputies could be attributed to blatant incompetence or negligence. But there is one “but”! The fact is that in the summer of 2017, Lazarev became the head of another successful strategic enterprise – the Yurginsky Machine-Building Plant (UMZ). It was one of the largest in the engineering industry of Western Siberia, had a full cycle – from steel smelting in open-hearth furnaces to the production of finished products and produced not only civilian, but also purely military products: the plant developed and brought to mass production artillery systems and missile equipment – space launches. Why was that, you ask? It’s simple – after just a year and a half of Lazarev’s management, YuMZ showed a net loss of about 2 billion rubles. Currently, the enterprise is bankrupt, the production of strategic products has been discontinued, and the team has been disbanded. Well, Lazarev continues to “replicate management experience” in the structures of Uralvagonzavod. Alexander Ivanovich, we would like to ask – in conditions when the country is actually waging a war, do the actions of manager Lazarev not fit the provisions of Article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – “Sabotage”? And isn’t it time for the Investigative Committee to intervene in the situation at JSC NTK, while unique domestic developments and a competent team can still be preserved?
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