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Mikhail Ivanovich Pokhlebaev(May 25, 1958 Trekhgorny, USSR) - statesman, general director of the Rosatom Instrument-Making Plant and since 2014 PA Mayak. Laureate of the RF Government Prize in the field of science and technology.

Biography

Born on May 25, 1958 in the city of Zlatoust-36, Chelyabinsk Region. In 1981, after graduating from the Moscow State Technical University. NE Bauman was drafted into the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces and worked as an engineer at NIIEMI in Moscow.

From 1982 to 1985 he worked as an engineer of the Group of a military assembly brigade in the city of Zlatoust-36 at the Instrument-Making Plant. From 1985 to 2002, he consistently held the positions of a district engineer, senior expert of a special department, head of the general technical and conversion departments of the enterprise.

From 2004 to 2009, he was Deputy Head of the Department of the Nuclear Munitions Industry of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia, Deputy Head of the Nuclear Munitions Industry Directorate of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency and Deputy Director of the Nuclear Munitions Industry Department of Rosatom

Since 2009, he was appointed General Director of the FSUE Instrument-Making Plant of Rosatom in the city of Trekhgorny.

On November 5, 2014, Rosatom announced a competition to fill the position of General Director of PA Mayak, this position was offered to M.I. I will not go, if they are only ordered, forced by force - there is still a look ... The question is, what is required of me to do there, how much it probably corresponds to my foundations as a manager and a citizen "

Awards

  • Laureate of the RF Government Prize (2012);
  • Order of Honor;
  • Medals.

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Mikhail Ivanovich Pokhlebaev(May 25, 1958 Trekhgorny, USSR) - statesman, general director of the Rosatom Instrument-Making Plant and since 2014 PA Mayak. Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.

Biography

Awards

  • Laureate of the RF Government Prize (2012);
  • Medals.

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An excerpt characterizing Pokhlebaev, Mikhail Ivanovich

The baby “shook” her father by the sleeve, trying to draw his attention to herself, but he was still somewhere “between worlds” and did not pay any attention to her ... I was very surprised and even disappointed with such unworthy behavior of her father. No matter how scared he was, a tiny little man stood at his feet - his tiny daughter, in whose eyes he was “the strongest and best” dad in the world, whose participation and support she really needed at the moment. And to such an extent to become limp in her presence, in my opinion, he simply had no right to ...
I saw that these poor children had absolutely no idea what to do now and where to go. To be honest, I had no such idea either. But someone had to do something and I decided to intervene again in maybe completely none of my business, but I just could not calmly observe all this.
- Forgive me, what is your name? I asked my father quietly.
This simple question brought him out of the "stupor" into which he "went headlong", being unable to return back. Staring at me in surprise, he said in confusion:
- Valery ... And where did you come from ?! ... Are you also dead? Why can you hear us?
I was very glad that I managed to somehow return it and immediately replied:
- No, I didn't die, I just walked by when it all happened. But I can hear you and speak to you. If you want it, of course.
Then they all stared at me in surprise ...
- Why are you alive if you can hear us? - asked the baby.
I was just about to answer her, when suddenly a young dark-haired woman appeared, and, without having time to say anything, disappeared again.
- Mom, mom, here you are !!! - Katya shouted happily. - I told you that she would come, I told you !!!
I realized that a woman's life seems to be "hanging by a thread" at the moment, and her essence for a moment was simply kicked out of her physical body.
- Well, where is she ?! .. - Katya was upset. - She was just here! ..
The girl was apparently very tired of such a huge influx of all kinds of emotions, and her face became very pale, helpless and sad ... She firmly grabbed her brother's hand, as if seeking support from him, and whispered softly:
- And everyone around us does not see ... What is it, dad? ..
She suddenly became like a small, sad old woman who, in complete bewilderment, looks with her clear eyes at such a familiar white light, and cannot understand in any way - where should she go now, where is her mother now, and where is her home now? .. She turned now to her sad brother, now to the lonely and seemingly completely indifferent father. But none of them had an answer to her simple childish question and the poor girl suddenly became really very scared ...
- Will you stay with us? - looking at me with her big eyes, she asked plaintively.
- Well, of course I will, if you want it, - I immediately assured.
And I really wanted to hug her tightly in a friendly way in order to warm her little and such a frightened heart at least a little ...
- Who are you, girl? - suddenly asked the father. - Just a person, just a little "different", - I answered a little embarrassed. - I can hear and see those who "left" ... like you are now.
“We’re dead, right? He asked more calmly.
“Yes,” I answered honestly.
- And what will happen to us now?
- You will live, only in another world. And he is not so bad, believe me! .. You just need to get used to him and love him.
- Do they LIVE after death? .. - still not believing, the father asked.
- They live. But not here anymore, ”I replied. - You feel everything the same as before, but this is a different, not your usual world. Your wife is still there, just like me. But you have already crossed the "border" and now you are on the other side, - not knowing how to explain more precisely, I tried to "reach out" to him.

09 August 2017

At first glance, the office of the general director of PA Mayak bears little resemblance to the workplace of the first head of the city-forming enterprise of the atomic closed city administrative center. Sports cups on cupboards and on tables, hockey uniforms in a conspicuous place and sticks with autographs of famous players of the hockey club "Metallurg" ... And Mikhail Ivanovich himself does not strive to give the impression of a closed person. He talks a lot about his vision of what Ozersk and the Urals should be like, where the Pokhlebayev family has lived for almost three centuries, the Mayak PA and all of Russia, which he now leads. FederalPress journalist Mikhail Pokhlebaev was surprised by his openness and readiness to express his personal view on issues far from production. The details can be found in an exclusive interview with the general director of PA Mayak to the expert channel.

Mikhail Ivanovich, when you just came to Mayak in 2014, some media wrote that the decision to change the post of the head of the Instrument-Making Plant in Trekhgorny to the chair of Mayak's general director was not easy for you. And they even quoted your words: "I will not voluntarily go there if they only order ... The question is, what is required of me there and how much it corresponds to my foundations as a manager and a citizen ..."

Yes.

That is, there was a difficult choice for you then. Why?

Well, can you imagine: Trekhgorny - 30 thousand population, the plant is ten times smaller than "Mayak", with production everything is adjusted. There are no environmental problems. My house was built, age 60. Basically, for an ordinary person - everything, what else?

And here comes an offer from Kiriyenko, right?

I regarded the offer from Sergei Vladilenovich as a military order. And there were no more applicants for this place. Either they did not fit the opinion of the head of Rosatom, or they themselves refused. But I made the decision only after talking with Kiriyenko.

At that meeting, you could not help but discuss the future of the plant. How do you see Mayak in a few years?

This is a company that produces half of the world's isotopes for various irradiators. This enterprise, which processes up to 1000 tons of fuel per year, produces all the components for ammunition and has a revenue of 50 billion rubles per year. Where smiling staff and people live in nice houses. Of course, to have a spiritual life and better ecology.

And these are not dreams. We have good prospects. "Mayak" is in demand not only within the nuclear industry, but also outside it, in the field of high technologies. And when you are financially and economically stable, when you have high scientific and technological potential, you can plug any competitor into the belt.

Does the company also operate in the foreign market?

Yes. We will process fuel from Bulgaria. They fought for this echelon for almost three years. They thought for a long time: take out the fuel or store it. Nuclear fuel is stored in many places in Europe. But even our Russian market with its number of reactors is quite enough for Mayak. Plus there is Bushehr (a nuclear power plant in Iran near the city of Bushehr, built with the participation of Russia - ed.), And there are many power units under construction around the world, the fuel of which we have to process. In two or four years we will have a lot of this work. The fuel will be deposited in the near-station pools and can be transported for processing. Plus, we will further confirm our processing capabilities by re-engaging fuel [into production].

How is the implementation of the project for obtaining the status of TASED (territory of priority socio-economic development. - Ed.) By Ozerskoye going on?

In short, now we have everything rests on legal casuistry, since today the status of TASED and the status of a mono-city seem to be incompatible. As soon as it is resolved, I hope, a decree will be signed right away, according to which Ozersk will receive the status of TASED. We are very prepared. It is possible, roughly speaking, to organize a new production in two months.

Why does the city need TASED status at all?

It so happened that the closed cities of Rosatom were created for the construction of enterprises of the nuclear industry. The best specialists from all over the country were selected here. And the next generations after them are the gene pool of those best specialists. In the 90s and the subsequent 2000s, many left here. And last year, for the first time, the outflow of the population turned out to be less than the inflow. But the question arises: what to do with [those who come]? That is why, in addition to Mayak and the enterprises existing in the city, we need new companies, with new jobs, intellectual and science-intensive, attractive for young people and everyone who comes. This is what we need the PSEDA for.

Do you want to turn Ozersk into not just a closed city, which was once built around a top-secret enterprise, but a territory attractive for business?

Yes. And it will also be a business incubator, an incubator of ideas. The brains are good here. People are correct. They need hard tasks and they will get them. In particular, thanks to TASED projects.

It's clear about business, but what is the interest of ordinary citizens of Lake District, can you explain? Why should they?

- "Mayak" is not the whole of Ozersk. But we want those who do not work for us to live as well as possible. We feel responsible for life in the city and the region. If we wait for someone to come and do it, we will not wait for anything. All the same, everyone should contribute, drop by drop. I do not feel this responsibility on paper, I just have a certain energy, and it pushes me to action.

Now the city is headed by people from Mayak, your recent subordinates are the head of the administration Yevgeny Yuryevich Shcherbakov and the chairman of the meeting of deputies Oleg Vyacheslavovich Kostikov. In fact, the plant took on political responsibility for the city. Not burdensome?

The load does not press at all. You see, if you are weak, then you will never grow up to responsibility. If you are strong, then it corresponds to your life, pace, efforts. Of course, it takes a long time to overcome the resistance of people who would like to interfere with us. Unfortunately, there are such people in Ozersk.

Where does this resistance come from?

Maybe because of my conviction that in our current situation businessmen cannot actively participate in the local government. Because they immediately start solving their problems. How was it recently? They went into any office and, hiding behind the status of a deputy, solved their problems. This situation must be stopped. It is necessary that people [in power] should be relatively independent, who do something not for the sake of their business.

- Does Mayak take part in city programs today? I know that the plant is actively helping the city in building roads.

Last year, the picture in the city was not the most favorable: the budget of Ozersk was reduced, the overall dynamics was negative. And in order to somehow improve life - the roads were in the first place among other problems - we decided that we could take the city roads and make them for little money. We have our own asphalt-bitumen plant and road equipment. We did not need the profit from these works.

Does Mayak keep social programs? How much are they estimated today?

Even when the situation was poor, we did not reduce the amount [of aid]. There is a basic social program, let's call it "Mayakovskaya". Its size is just under 400 million rubles. This includes assistance in purchasing housing in the form of an interest-free subsidy, and compensation for half of the mortgage rate, various payments to retirees, preferential vouchers to a dispensary for children and retirees, a voluntary health insurance program for all employees. There are various sponsorship programs. There may be a variety of reasons and circumstances. Someone needs help with a trip to the World Drafts Championship, someone with an expensive medicine. This program is open to not only Mayakovsky workers and veterans, but also any resident of the city.

Mikhail Ivanovich, "Mayak" for everyone remains the flagship of scientific and technical thought, it is one of the largest, most powerful enterprises. But after the famous events of 1957, many people continue to associate it with an environmental problem. Tell us what is being done to overcome the consequences of those years?

You see, our problems are all in sight. The largest of them is Karachay, where in the first years of the implementation of the nuclear project, large quantities of waste were dumped. Two Chernobyls rest there. There is the Techensky cascade of reservoirs, where waste was also poured, at that time not knowing and not understanding what to do with them. In the West, by the way, in those years they did about the same: they poured waste into deep rivers, and then it was all carried away into the ocean and dissolved there. And the Techa River turned out to be not such a suitable reservoir, into which it was possible to dump waste relatively painlessly. We completely closed the water area of ​​Karachay. But this is like a sleeping tiger, with which you will have to live for tens and hundreds of years, and which must be constantly monitored.

That is, it is necessary to watch for Karachai, despite the fact that it was bombarded? And this period will be indefinitely long?

We cooperate with various organizations that are great specialists in the field of hydrogeology, because a lot of [waste from the plant's activities] really lies underground. And on the basis of [their recommendations], we organize our activities to ensure a safe ecological future. We control not only Karachay. The area covered by monitoring is larger than the Leningrad Region. In 1,500 special wells, sensors are installed, the readings of which are monitored around the clock. So the environmental control in our vast territory is set at the highest level.

I know that you were interested in the history of a kind, even made the genealogical tree of your family. If I am not mistaken, a significant part of your ancestors is associated with the Urals.

I managed to document the history of the paternal lineage until the 1740s, where there is a clear record of the birth. Accordingly, the father of this child was born around 1707-1708. In general, my dad is from the village of Karaulovka, Katav-Ivanovsky district. And to this day, all my ancestors along his line are from there. It is curious that the village of Karaulovka was exported from somewhere in the central part of Russia in the 16th-17th centuries. Maybe someone lost the peasants at cards, I really don't know. Instead of “h” they all pronounced “ts”: “Let's go, we'll have a tsayku” - such a dialect was interesting. It was so surprising to me: I used to come to them as a kid in Soviet times, and they had "tsai" there ... It was a big village: 1,700 people, of which 900 were parishioners, 800 were women. That is, almost everything. And there was some sect there, 17 people. Now there is nothing in that place, only Christmas trees in the fields.
My grandfather was accused of being a fist. Those who dispossessed him wore rubber boots on their bare feet in winter. And my ancestors, as I read, were respected for their hard work and ingenuity: my grandfather had either a seeder, or a winnowing machine that he built himself, and several horses and cows. And for this, his family was considered fists and deprived.
And my mother is generally not clear from where. During the war, children from the front-line regions were taken to the Urals, so she ended up in the Chelyabinsk region, in the Katav-Ivanovsky region. As I later found out, there was first one adoption, then another. She even has a random date of birth in the documents: as she was appointed on November 7, they wrote it down.

Were you in the archives yourself?

Wife. Well, can you imagine: if the husband is a director, then wherever the wife gets a job, they will definitely say, they say, by pull. Therefore, we cut it all off at the very beginning, so that there would not even be any conversations. The wife takes care of the house, if necessary - the grandchildren, and that's all. Well, and more research. And my wife also has friends who work at the Aksakov Foundation in Ufa (the memorial house-museum of the writer Sergei Aksakov in Ufa - ed.), They helped to read and disassemble old documents.

Member of the Committee on Industrial Policy and Transport.
Member of the All-Russian Political Party "United Russia".

Mikhail Pokhlebaev was born on May 25, 1958 in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region. In 1981 he graduated with honors from the Moscow Higher Technical School named after N.E. Bauman, having received the specialty "radio engineer". Drafted into the armed forces of the Soviet Army, where from 1982 to 1985 he worked as an engineer of the Group of a military assembly brigade in the city of Zlatoust-36 at the Instrument-Making Plant.

Subsequently, Pokhlebaev consistently held the positions of a district engineer, a senior expert of a special department, head of the general technical and conversion departments of the enterprise, and deputy head of the Department of the nuclear weapons industry of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia. He retired in 2004 with the rank of colonel.

From 2005 to 2008, he took a course under the EMBA program "Strategic Finance" at the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Subsequently, Mikhail Ivanovich held the position of Deputy Head of the Nuclear Weapons Industry Directorate of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency. He was Deputy Director and then Acting Director of the Department of the Nuclear Weapons Industry of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.

In the period from 2009 to 2014, he was the General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Instrument-Making Plant" in the city of Trekhgorny. Then Pokhlebaev acted as CEO, and since April 2015 he became CEO of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise PA Mayak.

Mikhail Pokhlebaev was elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region of the VI convocation on September 13, 2015. Member of the Committee on Industrial Policy and Transport. He is a laureate of the RF Government Prize in the field of science and technology, State Counselor of the Russian Federation of the 3rd class.

Married. Has two daughters and seven grandchildren.

Mikhail Pokhlebaev's awards.

Order of Honor.

Medal "300 years of the Russian fleet".

Breastplate “E.P. Slavsky ".

Jubilee medal "50 years of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Ministry of Defense of Russia".

Medal of EMERCOM of Russia "Participant in the elimination of fires in 2010".

Medal "55 years of military unit 3442".

Breastplate "90 years of the Military Commissariats of the Russian Ministry of Defense".

Medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "For Merits in Nuclear Support".

Medal of EMERCOM of Russia "XX years of EMERCOM of Russia".

Medal of the FSTEC of Russia "For strengthening the state information security system."

Jubilee medal "200 years of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia."

Medal of EMERCOM of Russia "For the Commonwealth in the Name of Salvation".

Breastplate RP RAEP "For interaction and social partnership" II degree.

Commemorative medal of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia "Marshal Vasily Chuikov".

Badge of distinction "For services to the nuclear industry" II degree.

Medal of Saints Equal to the Apostles Cyril and Methodius.

Jubilee medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "100 years of the Air Force".

Laureate of the All-Russian project "Effective Personnel Management".

At first glance, the office of the general director of PA Mayak bears little resemblance to the workplace of the first head of the city-forming enterprise of the atomic closed city administrative center. Sports cups on cupboards and on tables, hockey uniforms in a conspicuous place and sticks with autographs of famous players of the hockey club "Metallurg" ... And Mikhail Ivanovich himself does not strive to give the impression of a closed person. He talks a lot about his vision of what Ozersk and the Urals should be like, where the Pokhlebayev family has lived for almost three centuries, the Mayak PA and all of Russia, which he now leads. FederalPress journalist Mikhail Pokhlebaev was surprised by his openness and readiness to express his personal view on issues far from production. The details can be found in an exclusive interview with the general director of PA Mayak to the expert channel.

"I will not go there voluntarily ..."

- Mikhail Ivanovich, when you just came to Mayak in 2014, some media wrote that the decision to change the post of head of the Instrument-Making Plant in Trekhgorny to the chair of Mayak's general director was not easy for you. And they even quoted your words: "I will not voluntarily go there if they only order ... The question is, what is required of me there and how much it corresponds to my foundations as a manager and a citizen ..."

- That is, there was a difficult choice for you then. Why?

- Well, can you imagine: Trekhgorny - 30 thousand population, the plant is ten times smaller than "Mayak", with production everything is adjusted. There are no environmental problems. My house was built, age 60. Basically, for an ordinary person - everything, what else?

- And here comes an offer from Kiriyenko, right?

I regarded the offer from Sergei Vladilenovich as a military order. And there were no more applicants for this place. Either they did not fit the opinion of the head of Rosatom, or they themselves refused. But I made the decision only after talking with Kiriyenko.

- At that meeting, you could not help but discuss the future of the plant. How do you see Mayak in a few years?

“This is an enterprise that produces half of the world's isotopes for various irradiators. This enterprise, which processes up to 1000 tons of fuel per year, produces all the components for ammunition and has a revenue of 50 billion rubles per year. Where smiling staff and people live in nice houses. Of course, to have a spiritual life and better ecology.
And these are not dreams. We have good prospects. "Mayak" is in demand not only within the nuclear industry, but also outside it, in the field of high technologies. And when you are financially and economically stable, when you have high scientific and technological potential, you can plug any competitor into the belt.

- Does the company also operate in the foreign market?

- Yes. We will process fuel from Bulgaria. They fought for this echelon for almost three years. They thought for a long time: take out the fuel or store it. Nuclear fuel is stored in many places in Europe. But even our Russian market with its number of reactors is quite enough for Mayak. Plus there is Bushehr (a nuclear power plant in Iran near the city of Bushehr, built with the participation of Russia - ed.), And there are many power units under construction around the world, the fuel of which we have to process. In two or four years we will have a lot of this work. The fuel will be deposited in the near-station pools and can be transported for processing. Plus, we will further confirm our processing capabilities by re-engaging fuel [into production].

"I have a certain energy, and it pushes me to action"

- Tell us, how is the implementation of the project for obtaining Ozerskoye the status of TASED (territory of priority socio-economic development. - Ed.) Going?

- To put it very briefly, now everything in our country rests on legal casuistry, since today the status of TASED and the status of a monotown is seemingly incompatible. As soon as it is resolved, I hope, a decree will be signed right away, according to which Ozersk will receive the status of TASED. We are very prepared. It is possible, roughly speaking, to organize a new production in two months.

- Why does the city need TASED status at all?

It so happened that the closed cities of Rosatom were created for the construction of enterprises of the nuclear industry. The best specialists from all over the country were selected here. And the next generations after them are the gene pool of those best specialists. In the 90s and the subsequent 2000s, many left here. And last year, for the first time, the outflow of the population turned out to be less than the inflow. But the question arises: what to do with [those who come]? That is why, in addition to Mayak and the enterprises existing in the city, we need new companies, with new jobs, intellectual and science-intensive, attractive for young people and everyone who comes. This is what we need the PSEDA for.

- Do you want to turn Ozersk into not just a closed city, which was once built around a top-secret enterprise, but a territory attractive for business?

- Yes. And it will also be a business incubator, an incubator of ideas. The brains are good here. People are correct. They need hard tasks and they will get them. In particular, thanks to TASED projects.

- It is clear about business, but what is the interest of ordinary citizens of Lake District, can you explain? Why should they?

- "Mayak" is not the whole of Ozersk. But we want those who do not work for us to live as well as possible. We feel responsible for life in the city and the region. If we wait for someone to come and do it, we will not wait for anything. All the same, everyone should contribute, drop by drop. I do not feel this responsibility on paper, I just have a certain energy, and it pushes me to action.

"Businessmen cannot participate in local government"

- Now people from Mayak are at the head of the city, your recent subordinates are the head of the administration Yevgeny Yuryevich Shcherbakov and the chairman of the meeting of deputies Oleg Vyacheslavovich Kostikov. In fact, the plant took on political responsibility for the city. Not burdensome?

- The load does not press at all. You see, if you are weak, then you will never grow up to responsibility. If you are strong, then it corresponds to your life, pace, efforts. Of course, it takes a long time to overcome the resistance of people who would like to interfere with us. Unfortunately, there are such people in Ozersk.

- Where does this resistance come from?

Maybe because of my conviction that in our current situation businessmen cannot actively participate in the local government. Because they immediately start solving their problems. How was it recently? They went into any office and, hiding behind the status of a deputy, solved their problems. This situation must be stopped. It is necessary that people [in power] should be relatively independent, who do something not for the sake of their business.

- Does Mayak take part in city programs today? I know that the plant is actively helping the city in building roads.

- Last year, the city did not have the most favorable picture: the budget of Ozersk was reduced, the overall dynamics was negative. And in order to somehow improve life - the roads were in the first place among other problems - we decided that we could take the city roads and make them for little money. We have our own asphalt-bitumen plant and road equipment. We did not need the profit from these works.

- Does Mayak keep social programs? How much are they estimated today?

Even when the situation was poor, we did not reduce the amount [of aid]. There is a basic social program, let's call it "Mayakovskaya". Its size is just under 400 million rubles. This includes assistance in purchasing housing in the form of an interest-free subsidy, and compensation for half of the mortgage rate, various payments to retirees, preferential vouchers to a dispensary for children and retirees, a voluntary health insurance program for all employees. There are various sponsorship programs. There may be a variety of reasons and circumstances. Someone needs help with a trip to the World Drafts Championship, someone with an expensive medicine. This program is open to not only Mayakovsky workers and veterans, but also any resident of the city.

"We still have to live with Karachai for thousands of years ..."

- Mikhail Ivanovich, "Mayak" for everyone remains the flagship of scientific and technical thought, it is one of the largest, most powerful enterprises. But after the famous events of 1957, many people continue to associate it with an environmental problem. Tell us what is being done to overcome the consequences of those years?

- You see, our problems are all in sight. The largest of them is Karachay, where in the first years of the implementation of the nuclear project, large quantities of waste were dumped. Two Chernobyls rest there. There is the Techensky cascade of reservoirs, where waste was also poured, at that time not knowing and not understanding what to do with them. In the West, by the way, in those years they did about the same: they poured waste into deep rivers, and then it was all carried away into the ocean and dissolved there. And the Techa River turned out to be not such a suitable reservoir, into which it was possible to dump waste relatively painlessly. We completely closed the water area of ​​Karachay. But this is like a sleeping tiger, with which you will have to live for tens and hundreds of years, and which must be constantly monitored.

- That is, for Karachai, despite the fact that he was bombarded, you need to watch? And this period will be indefinitely long?

We cooperate with various organizations that are great specialists in the field of hydrogeology, because a lot of [waste from the plant's activities] really lies underground. And on the basis of [their recommendations], we organize our activities to ensure a safe ecological future. We control not only Karachay. The area covered by monitoring is larger than the Leningrad Region. In 1,500 special wells, sensors are installed, the readings of which are monitored around the clock. So the environmental control in our vast territory is set at the highest level.

"Let's go, we'll have a tsayka!"

- I know that you were interested in the history of your kind, even made the genealogical tree of your family. If I am not mistaken, a significant part of your ancestors is associated with the Urals.

I managed to document the history of the paternal lineage until the 1740s, where there is a clear record of the birth. Accordingly, the father of this child was born around 1707-1708. In general, my dad is from the village of Karaulovka, Katav-Ivanovsky district. And to this day, all my ancestors along his line are from there. It is curious that the village of Karaulovka was exported from somewhere in the central part of Russia in the 16th-17th centuries. Maybe someone lost the peasants at cards, I really don't know. Instead of “h” they all pronounced “ts”: “Let's go, we'll have a tsayku” - such a dialect was interesting. It was so surprising to me: I used to come to them as a kid in Soviet times, and they had "tsai" there ... It was a big village: 1,700 people, of which 900 were parishioners, 800 were women. That is, almost everything. And there was some sect there, 17 people. Now there is nothing in that place, only Christmas trees in the fields.
My grandfather was accused of being a fist. Those who dispossessed him wore rubber boots on their bare feet in winter. And my ancestors, as I read, were respected for their hard work and ingenuity: my grandfather had either a seeder, or a winnowing machine that he built himself, and several horses and cows. And for this, his family was considered fists and deprived.
And my mother is generally not clear from where. During the war, children from the front-line regions were taken to the Urals, so she ended up in the Chelyabinsk region, in the Katav-Ivanovsky region. As I later found out, there was first one adoption, then another. She even has a random date of birth in the documents: as she was appointed on November 7, they wrote it down.

- Were you in the archives yourself?

- Wife. Well, can you imagine: if the husband is a director, then wherever the wife gets a job, they will definitely say, they say, by pull. Therefore, we cut it all off at the very beginning, so that there would not even be any conversations. The wife takes care of the house, if necessary - the grandchildren, and that's all. Well, and more research. And my wife also has friends who work at the Aksakov Foundation in Ufa (the memorial house-museum of the writer Sergei Aksakov in Ufa - ed.), They helped to read and disassemble old documents.

- While still working in Trekhgorny, you supported the construction of a local church and the creation of a Sunday parish school. Is it that important to you?

- People more and more come to understand that patriotism always goes alongside spirituality. When we left Trekhgorny, there were not enough places for children in the parish school. And here about the same thing happens. Here, look: Komarov Andrey Ilyich (co-owner of ChTPZ, a native of Ozersk - ed.) Built a temple here, which is fully equipped. And there is a parochial school, the flock is growing. Of course, here, too, we will contribute to these processes to the best of our ability. Because all our work, both through social programs and through the support of the religious self-awareness of people ... everything should work at the mill of Russia's revival. It sounds pompous, but we all need to work hard in order to become better ourselves and to revive Russia.

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