Construction work on the railroad. Construction of new railways in Russia. Largest cities by population

The construction of new railways in Russia will allow for productive modernization and an early economic development countries. For this purpose, in 2000, the Strategy for the Development of Russian Railways was developed and approved, calculated until 2030.

Strategic plans of the country for the laying of railways

Half of the deadline has passed. What awaits the railway industry in the remaining years, how the economic situation will affect the implementation of the plan, and what to expect from the implementation plan in the future, they think in the Government and in the industry divisions of the railway.

It must be said that until now the conditions for promoting the Strategy plan have always been difficult. Crises, economic difficulties did not contribute to the rapid growth of the total length of the railway track in Russia. If by 1992 the total length of steel tracks was 87 thousand km, then over the next 15 years, as a result of the construction of new railways, the national network increased by only 9 thousand km.

Railway high-speed lines

But on the other hand, Russia ranks second in the world (after China) in the electrification of railway tracks. Eco-friendly and cheap electric trains allow you to reduce costs and transport a huge amount, if not of goods, then of passengers. Electrified tracks in our country today amount to 43 thousand km.

The target version of the Strategy envisages by 2030:

• lay 20.7 thousand km of railway;
• upgrade 23 thousand locomotives;
• supply 1 million freight wagons;
• launch more than 23 thousand passenger cars;
• to increase motor-car rolling stock by 24.5 thousand units.

The plans are huge. Particularly important is the construction of a railway in the south, the Far East and Siberia. Close friendly relations with China and the weakening of partnership with Europe led to the fact that today the Russian-Chinese agreement was signed on 10 billion Chinese investments in the construction of a high-speed railway between Moscow and Beijing.

The parties also signed an agreement under which by 2018 (for the World Cup) they will build a 770-kilometer section connecting Moscow and Kazan. Moreover, the maximum speed of trains will reach 400 km/h.

By 2030, the all-Russian high-speed railway line will be 5 thousand km.

Railway construction bypassing Ukraine

Given that the railway line between the Rostov and Voronezh regions crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border twice, it was decided to start building a railway bypassing Ukraine. For this, the railway troops were involved, which, according to Lieutenant General O. Kosenok, head of the Main Directorate of the Russian Air Force, are ahead of schedule by 20, and in some areas even by 40%.

4 mechanization battalions from 3 military districts (900 military and more than 350 pieces of equipment) are laying a 20 km section. Such efficiency will allow the canvas to be handed over earlier than the deadline planned for 2018. And this is especially important in connection with the worsened relations with Ukraine and hostilities in the east of the neighboring state.

The Millerovo-Zhuravka railway line will allow traveling from Rostov to Voronezh only through safe Russian territory

Railway lines of the north

As you know, our North and East are rich in minerals. To reduce the cost of transporting mined, in November 2011, a highway was laid from Tommot to Yakutsk. And another project - the construction of a railway bridge across the Nadym, is being carried out by Mosstroy-12 with the help of German engineers from DB International. This will allow faster and cheaper implementation of projects to provide Russia with minerals and raw materials.

By the way, the Strategy provides for the construction of railway lines to places where new mineral deposits are still being developed. Moreover, the rolling stock and the construction of railway infrastructure should be carried out only at domestic enterprises. This will help solve the problem of employment of the population.

In the national interests of our country, the Strategic Plan for the Development of the Russian Railway Network provides for the prevention of technological and scientific and technical dependence on foreign sources. For this, comprehensive fundamental and applied research is carried out by Russian specialists.

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Largest countries by population:

The largest country in the world by population is China. China is home to 1.374 billion people. In second place is India with a population of 1.283 billion people. The third place is occupied by the United States with a population of 322 million inhabitants. Next come Indonesia (252 million), Brazil (205 million), Pakistan (192 million), Nigeria (173 million), Bangladesh (159 million), Russia ranks ninth in terms of population in the world (146.5 million people), in tenth place is Japan with a population of 127 million people.

The largest cities by population:

The largest city in the world by population is Shanghai (China). Shanghai is home to 24.2 million people. In second place is Karachi (Pakistan). The population of Karachi is 23.5 million people. In third place is Beijing (China) with a population of 21.5 million, followed by Delhi (India) - 16.3 million, Lagos (Nigeria) - 16 million, Tianjin (China) - 15.2 million ., Istanbul (Turkey) - 14.1 million, Tokyo (Japan) - 13.5 million, Guangzhou (China) - 13 million, Mumbai (India) - 12.4 million, Moscow (Russia) - 12.197 million, Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 11.89 million, Shenzhen (China) - 10.46 million, Jakarta (Indonesia) - 10 million, Lahore (Pakistan) - 10 million, Seoul (South Korea) - 9.9 million, Kinshasa ( Democratic Republic Congo) - 9.73 million, Cairo (Egypt) - 9.27 million, Mexico City (Mexico) - 8.87 million, Lima (Peru) - 8.69 million, London (UK) - 8.67 million, New York (USA) - 8.55 million, Bangalore (India) - 8.44 million, Bangkok (Thailand) - 8.28 million, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) - 8.22 million, 51st place is St. Petersburg (Russia) with a population of 5.2 million people.

Russian cities with population: more than 50,000 people, from 20,000 to 50,000 people. , up to 20 000 people , urban-type settlements and villages.

The largest countries by area:

You can visually determine the areas of countries on a world map. The largest country in the world in terms of area is Russia with 17 million sq. km, followed by Canada (9.9 million sq. km), the third place is the USA (9.62 million), the fourth place is China (9. 59 million), followed by Brazil (8.5 million), Australia (7.68 million), India (3.28 million), Argentina (2.76 million), Kazakhstan (2.71 million) , in 10th place is Sudan (2.5 million sq. km.).

The smallest countries by area:

The smallest country in the world by area is the Vatican. The area of ​​the Vatican is only 1 square kilometer. In second place is Monaco (2 sq. km), in third place is Nauru (21 sq. km), then comes Tuvalu (26 sq. km), San Marino (61 sq. km), Liechtenstein (160 sq. km.). ), Marshall Islands (181 sq. km.), Saint Kitts and Nevis (261 sq. km.), Maldives (300 sq. km.), 10th place is occupied by Malta with an area of ​​316 sq. km.

Longest rivers:

The longest river in the world is the Nile-Kagera (6650 km.), In second place is the Amazon-Ucayali-Apurimak (6400 km.), In the third place is the Yangtze River (6300 km.), Then the Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson River (6275 km. .), Yenisei-Angara-Selenga (6275 km.), Huang He (5464 km.), Ob-Irtysh (5410 km.), Parana-La Plata (4880 km.), Congo-Chambeshi (4700 km.), Amur-Argun (4444 km.), Lena River (4400 km.), Mekong River (4350 km.), Mackenzie Peace-Finlay (4241 km.), Niger River (4200 km.), Murray-Darling (3672 km. .), Tocantis-Araguaia (3650 km.), Volga River (3645 km.).

World population:

The population of the Earth in 2017 exceeded 7.5 billion people. Of these, women - 3.722 billion, men - 3.788 billion. About 146 million people are born per year, 57 million die. The increase in the world population in 2016 amounted to 88 million people. In 2017, the world population will increase by another 90 million people. The literacy rate of the world's population is about 86% (those who can read and write). Behind last years The growth of the world's population averages 1.2% per year.

World population by continent:

1.1 billion people live in Africa, 4.3 billion people live in Asia, 742 million people live in Europe, 742 million people live in Central and South America- 616 million, in North America - 355 million, in Australia - 38 million people. Capitals of all countries of the world by continent.

Fastest growing countries by population:

Qatar has the highest population growth rate (15.2%), followed by the UAE (12.3%), Bahrain (11.1%), South Sudan (5.3%), Liberia (4.5%), Kuwait (3.8%), Singapore (3.5%), Niger (3.5%), Uganda (3.2%), Eritrea (3.2%), Yemen (3.1%), Mali (3 .1%), Benin (3%), Malawi (3%), Burkina Faso (3%), Jordan (2.9%), Iraq (2.9%), Angola (2.9%), Maldagascar ( 2.9%), Tanzania (2.9%), Rwanda (2.9%), Burundi (2.9%). The lowest population growth rate is in Moldova (-1.1%), in Ukraine (-0.6%), in Georgia (-0.6%), in Bulgaria (-0.6%), in the Republic of Belarus (- 0.5%), in Lithuania (-0.5%), in Latvia (-0.5%).

Life expectancy in countries:

The highest life expectancy in Hong Kong (84 years), Japan (83.5), Italy (83.1), Singapore (83), Switzerland (83), Iceland (82.6), Spain ( 82.6), Australia (82.4), Israel (82.4), France (82.2), Sweden (82.2), Canada (82), South Korea (81.9 ), in New Zealand (81.8), in Chile (81.7), in Luxembourg (81.7), in the Netherlands (81.6), in Norway (81.6), in Austria (81.4) , Andorra (81.3), Germany (80.9), Greece (80.9), Ireland (80.9), Portugal (80.9), Belgium (80.8), Finland (80.8), in the UK (80.7).

The lowest life expectancy in such countries of the world as Swaziland (49 years), Lesotho (49.8), Central African Republic (50.7), Sierra Leone (50.9), Côte d'Ivoire (51. 5), Chad (51.6), Angola (52.3), Nigeria (52.8).

Resorts of the world:

The most popular resorts in the world: Maldives, Hawaii, Seychelles, Canary Islands, Bali, Phuket, Pattaya and Samui in Thailand, Bora Bora, Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Dubai, Dominican Republic, Cayman Islands, Philippines, Turkey , Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada in Egypt, Goa in India, Thessaloniki and Santorini in Greece, Mallorca in Spain, Nha Trang in Vietnam and others. Islands.

Reilyan, 53, has extensive experience in supervising large construction projects: he joined the Ministry of Regional Development in 2009 from business and, as deputy minister, was responsible for the construction of Olympic venues in his home city of Sochi. Before the civil service, Reilyan managed to work in private business: he was a co-owner of the Armstroy group, in 2007-2009. worked as the managing director of Basic Element and the general director of Transstroy (both companies of Oleg Deripaska), from where he moved to the Ministry of Regional Development. In 2013, after the Ministry of Regional Development was disbanded, Reilyan was transferred to work in the Ministry of Construction, where he also became Deputy Minister.

As Reilyan himself told Vedomosti, after leaving the civil service in February 2016, he decided to return to Building bussiness. “Due to my experience, doing small projects was boring. I looked around and decided that I was interested in the construction of railways,” said Reilyan. Immediately after his dismissal, he acquired the Sochi company Spetstransstroy, whose revenue did not exceed 300 million rubles. Soon, RZDstroy chose this company as the sole supplier of services for the reconstruction of the Kotelnikovo - Tikhoretskaya - Korenovsk - Timashevskaya - Krymskaya section (part of the Southern Russian Railways range). The amount of contracts then amounted to almost 8 billion rubles.

Reilyan did not say how much he bought the company for and what helped it immediately become a major supplier to Russian Railways. Judging by the income declarations that he published while working in the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Construction, in 2009-2014. he and his wife earned 21.99 million rubles. He did not publish the declaration for 2015. However, this is probably only a small part of his income. The annual remuneration of the top managers of "Basel" is very significant, points out the managing partner of the agency "Contact" Marina Tarnopolskaya: taking into account all payments, it can be $ 10-20 million or even more.

But Reilyan's purchases were not limited to one company. At the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, he bought 85% in Transyuzhstroy Management Company. By 2014, this company won orders from Russian Railways for work on the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway (the Eastern training ground of Russian Railways) for 61.9 billion rubles. True, over the next three years, Transyuzhstroy distributed almost half of this portfolio to other contractors.

So, in 2016, the company gave an order for 6.56 billion rubles. company "Stroyputinvest" former partners of presidential aide Igor Levitin and 5.97 billion rubles. - Stroynovatsiya company Ziyavudin Magomedov. Already under the new owner, Transyuzhstroy in 2017 gave a solid part of the contract at the Eastern Test Site worth 15.5 billion rubles. corporation "R-industry" and the firm "R-vostok". These structures, according to SPARK, are controlled by Vasiliev.

Reilyan says that he himself was the initiator of the reduction of the portfolio at the Eastern test site, explaining that the Southern test site is a priority for him, and he did not have enough capacity and resources to carry out all the work. The ex-official does not exclude that after the completion of work in the south of Russia, he will return to BAM again.

New leader

In response to the question why it was Vasilyev who got a quarter of the Transyuzhstroy portfolio, the ex-official says that he did not choose who to transfer the order to. Vasiliev's structures won an open tender for the assignment of rights to carry out these works, a representative of Russian Railways claims. Vedomosti failed to find any mention of this competition on public procurement websites.

Successful managers

How former managers of the structures of Alexei Krapivin and his partners earn on Russian Railways contracts
Until 2016, Transstroyresurs was a small company with an annual revenue of 257 million rubles. In 2015, he received orders from Russian Railways for 345 million rubles. The beneficiaries of the company were Natalya Labanova and Konstantin Manoli, about whom Vedomosti could not find out anything. In 2016, Transstroyresurs received a license from the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the right to carry out activities for the installation, maintenance and repair of fire safety equipment for buildings and structures, after which the company's business began to grow by leaps and bounds.
In 2016, the company signed 61 contracts with Russian Railways and RZDstroy for RUB 1 billion. In April 2017, the now quite prominent Russian Railways supplier also received new owner- Vasily Boyko, according to SPARK data. Boyko previously worked as a liquidator for Traffic Safety LLC, whose beneficiaries were Krapivin, Markelov and Usherovich. This year, the number of Transstroyresurs contracts has grown to 283, and their amount has already amounted to 3.2 billion rubles. Basically, these were small tenders for equipping railway stations and railway stations with automatic fire control systems.
This year, Russian Railways contracts for 1 billion rubles. was received by the Transport Technologies company established in 2015. In May 2017, it was acquired by Sergey Mashkov, former CEO CJSC "Kontur +", among the co-owners of which were Boris and Elena Usherovichi.
Another former general director of Usherovich’s company Genkom LLC, Ilya Kryuchkov, acquired Transportny Complex LLC in May 2017, which received 1.8 billion rubles from Russian Railways in 2017. for the supply of communication equipment. Another supplier of communication equipment for Russian Railways with a portfolio of orders for this year of 1.3 billion rubles. – Vintegra Telecom LLC – in 2017, went to Nikolai Alekseev, a minority shareholder of the STC Information Technologies, co-owned by Krapivin and his partners.

Reilyan's concession brought the St. Petersburg businessman Vasilyev to the top suppliers Russian Railways. His R-industry corporation had previously successfully worked with the state monopoly, but was not among the largest suppliers. Since its inception in 2008, the company has grown rapidly due to Russian Railways contracts for the construction of sections of the Sverdlovsk railway, by 2014 its annual revenue reached 7.9 billion rubles.

Vasiliev is a longtime acquaintance of the ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, and Vedomosti's sources in Russian Railways suggested that after the change of the company's president, Vasiliev's contracting business would face difficult times.

Indeed, after the appointment of Oleg Belozerov as president, in 2016, Vasiliev's R-industry did not receive a single major contract from Russian Railways. But this year the black streak ended and Vasiliev's structures received a record volume of orders from Russian Railways: in addition to the assigned contract from Transyuzhstroy, they themselves won several tenders for facilities in Siberia and BAM - in 2017 they received contracts for a total of 19 billion rubles.

Yakunin himself told Vedomosti that he met Vasiliev 10 years before joining Russian Railways (he joined the Ministry of Railways in 2003, and in 2005 he became president of Russian Railways). In the 1990s the construction company, in which Vasiliev was a junior partner, built a log house for Yakunin in the Leningrad region, the ex-head of Russian Railways himself said, without specifying exactly where the construction was carried out. It is known that in 1996 Yakunin became one of the co-founders of the Ozero dacha cooperative, among whose members were Putin and his close acquaintances, co-owners of Rossiya Bank Nikolai Shamalov and Yuri Kovalchuk.

In the 2000s Vasiliev, according to Yakunin, called him among the co-founders of the hunting economy in the Priozersky district. However, Yakunin assured that a long-standing acquaintance and a joint passion for hunting did not help Vasiliev's "R-industry" in any way to receive Russian Railways contracts.

But Vasiliev built and hunted not only for Yakunin.

Builder Friend

In the 2000s Vasiliev, together with Shamalov, became co-founders of the Priozersko-Melnikovsky hunting and fishing society, located next to the Yakunin hunting farm. Vasilyev also became a minority shareholder and CEO of the Modul group, one of the projects of the Rosinvest company created by Shamalov and Dmitry Gorelov, as well as their friend Sergei Kolesnikov.

It was Kolesnikov who in 2010 told in open letter Dmitry Medvedev, then President of Russia, how, in the interests of Putin, he, Shamalov and Gorelov raised funds for major projects, the most famous of which was the "Putin Palace" built near Gelendzhik. For other projects, including the "Module", there was almost no money left because of the palace, Kolesnikov wrote. "Module" was responsible for the construction of a plant for the production of blocks from which medical centers throughout the country could be assembled. Vasilyev was supposed to oversee the medical centers, Kolesnikov argued in a letter.

In October 2016, Vasiliev became a partner for the first time with Kovalchuk and another shareholder of Rossiya Bank, a distant relative of Putin, Mikhail Shelomov (he now owns a 6% stake in Rossiya Bank). Together they established LLC Igora Drive in St. Petersburg, in which Vasiliev and Kovalchuk each have 25%, and Shelomov has 50%. Igora Drive is engaged in the project of the race track of the same name, which is planned to be built near St. Petersburg near the Igora ski resort according to the project of the German architect Hermann Tilke, who designed the Formula 1 tracks, including in Sochi, Fontanka and other St. MEDIA. The resort "Igora" also belongs to the Kovalchuk family. According to Reuters, Kirill Shamalov, the son of an old friend of Putin, and the alleged daughter of the president, Katerina Tikhonova, were married here in 2013.

Who initiated the construction of the race track is not known. The website of the G-Energy-Vasilyev Racing Team, owned by Vasiliev, says that the businessman himself is an active pilot. In 2016, he took 2nd place in the rally in Qatar and in the Baja (a kind of rally-raid) "Russia - Northern Forest". Vasiliev did not answer the questions of Vedomosti sent to him.

old connections

The railway contracting business is also growing in structures associated with Krapivin and his partners Boris Usherovich, Valery Markelov, Yuri Obodovsky. Seven companies directly owned by partners - OSK 1520, BSM Management Company, Foratek Energotransstroy, Bamstroymekhanizatsiya, Lengiprotrans, Dalgiprotrans and Roszheldorproekt - are part of the 1520 Group of Companies. In 2017, according to SPARK, they received contracts from the state monopoly for 22 billion rubles. against 4 billion in 2016. True, the representative of the group claims that the portfolio of orders is less - 17 billion rubles.

Markelov also has his own business related to the supply of Russian Railways: he owns 80% of the largest fuel supplier PKP Moboil, which received contracts from Russian Railways for 13 billion rubles in 2017.

Russian Railways has many suppliers that have one thing in common: they are owned by former or current managers of various companies of shareholders of the 1520 Group of Companies. Individually, these firms are not among the largest suppliers, but together they collect contracts for an impressive amount. This year - by 39 billion rubles. Last year - by 24 billion rubles.

If all of them are also associated with Krapivin, then the total portfolio of orders exceeds 60 billion rubles. And this is a third of all major contracts of Russian Railways this year. It is incorrect to add indicators of other companies to the group's portfolio of contracts, a representative of the 1520 Group of Companies objects. He declined to comment on the personal business of shareholders and former managers.

Last year, a representative of Krapivin told Vedomosti that it was planned to transfer other companies associated with the group's shareholders to the 1520 Group of Companies, but so far its composition has not changed. What kind of companies might these be?

In 2017, it became known that Krapivin could also be related to Elteza, the largest Russian manufacturer of railway automation and telemechanics, which unites eight electrical plants. It was believed that this was a joint venture between Russian Railways (50% plus 1 share) and a subsidiary of the Canadian Bombardier - BT Signaling B.V. (49.99%). But when an investigation into Bombardier's corrupt deals in Azerbaijan began in Sweden at the end of 2016, documents were found confirming that 74% of the Dutch BT Signaling B.V. controlled by Krapivin and Obodovsky (the latter is on the board of directors of Elteza), according to the Swedish and Canadian media, as well as the Russian Novaya Gazeta.

Krapivin refused to comment on the composition of Elteza's shareholders, but noted that he was interested in this asset. “We are considering the inclusion of the Elteza company in the 1520 Group of Companies,” a representative of the businessman told Vedomosti.

Elteza received orders for 19 billion rubles from Russian Railways. in 2016 and by 8 billion rubles. in 2017. After that, she herself held competitions, which were often won by suppliers associated with the 1520 Group of Companies. Owned directly by Krapivin and his partners, OSK 1520 and Transzheldorproekt won Elteza contracts worth 1.1 billion rubles this year.

Who lost

But not all major contractors of Russian Railways managed to maintain this status.

Problems arose with Vitaly Bril, the owner of Stroyputinvest and a former business partner of Igor Levitin, Assistant to the President of Russia, former Minister of Transport. In the spring of 2016, for the first time in several years, his company received a large contract from Russian Railways for 6.5 billion rubles. – to carry out construction work at the Eastern test site. In a row, Transyuzhstroy shared with him.

The largest projects of Russian Railways

1. Modernization of BAM and Transsib
The cost is 562.4 billion rubles.
The infrastructure project "Modernization of the railway infrastructure of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian Railways" was launched in 2013. Its goal is to develop and upgrade the railway infrastructure for the export of coal and ores from existing and promising deposits of the landfill by 2020 in the direction of seaports and border transitions Far East.

2. Approaches to the ports of the North-West
The cost is 253.4 billion rubles.
Investment project "Development and renewal of the railway infrastructure on the approaches to the ports of the North-Western basin". The goal is to increase cargo transportation to ports in St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Murmansk regions by 20.9 million tons from the level of 2015 to 145.6 million tons.

3. Northern latitudinal course
The cost is 235.9 billion rubles.
The concession project is supported by Gazprom. It involves the construction of the Northern latitudinal route Obskaya - Salekhard - Nadym - Pangody - Novy Urengoy - Korotchaevo and railway approaches to it with a total length of 707 km. The forecast traffic volume will be 23.9 million tons (mainly gas condensate and bulk oil cargo).

4. Approaches to the ports of the south
The cost is 155 billion rubles.
The investment project "Development and renewal of railway infrastructure on the approaches to the ports of the Azov-Black Sea basin" aims to double the delivery of goods to the ports of Novorossiysk, Tuapse and Taman to 125.1 million tons.

But already at the end of the year, troubles rained down on Stroyputinvest. First in December 2016 federal agency Railway Transport (Roszheldor, subordinate to the Ministry of Transport) filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court, demanding that Stroyputinvest pay a penalty. It was about two old contracts of 2010 (then Levitin was still a minister) for the construction of a new railway line Losevo - Kamennogorsk to transfer freight traffic to the ports of the Gulf of Finland. The cost of the work was determined at 22 billion rubles, the deadline for the contract was until December 31, 2012. Stroyputinvest did not meet the deadline, and later, by order of the government of April 14, 2014, the project itself was changed. The deadline was shifted to 2016. The fact that Stroyputinvest failed to meet the deadlines for the original contract was only remembered in Roszheldor in the summer of 2015, sending a claim to the company. She remained unanswered. After 1.5 years, Roszheldor went to court. In May 2017, the Moscow Arbitration Court awarded almost 955 million rubles to be recovered from Stroyputinvest. penalties.

By that time, it turned out that Bril's company had missed the deadlines under the new contract: Russian Railways filed a lawsuit against it for 816 million rubles. True, the court did not move the case, because Russian Railways did not provide the original documents.

But this did not help Stroyputinvest. In 2016, the company suffered losses for the first time - and immediately by 1.25 billion rubles, and its revenue for the year decreased by almost 2 times from 3.9 billion to 2.1 billion rubles. In the spring of 2017, three out of four companies belonging to the Stroyputinvest group were declared bankrupt - Stroyputinvest itself, the United Construction Group and Mekhkolonna. Vedomosti failed to contact Bril. The representative of Russian Railways assures that Stroyputinvest continues to work at the Eastern training ground on account of the advance paid to it earlier. “If the obligations of JSC Stroyputinvest are not fulfilled in accordance with the terms of the agreement, JSC Russian Railways has the right to present its claims against Stroyputinvest again,” he emphasizes.

Magomedov's Stroynovatsiya, to which Transyuzhstroy also transferred part of the contract for the Eastern test site, did not go well either. Stroynovatsiya in 2016 for the first time in five years received a net loss of almost 1.5 billion rubles, its revenue compared to 2015 decreased by almost 2 times to 6.4 billion rubles.

In December 2016, Russian Railways filed a lawsuit against Stroynovatsiya for 116 million rubles. – Penalties for failure to meet the deadline for construction work at the Eastern Test Site. Court of Arbitration Moscow rejected the claim, because Russian Railways itself was to blame for the failure to meet deadlines by not providing the contractor project documentation. Court of Appeal supported this decision. But the company's problems didn't end there. In the spring of 2017, Stroynovatsiya's bankruptcy lawsuit was filed by its contractor, Eles-Ruspacific, to which the company owed only 300,000 rubles. The decision to start bankruptcy proceedings has not yet been made, the court session has been postponed several times. The next one is scheduled for the end of October.

A representative of Stroynovatsiya told Vedomosti that the statement about the bankruptcy of the company is incorrect, and the lawsuit itself is not related to Russian Railways. “The company continues to fulfill its obligations to implement contracts,” he says. In early September, at the Eastern Economic Forum, the head of the Summa group, Magomedov, told the RNS agency about the possible sale of Stroynovatsiya and another engineering company, Globalelectroservice.

Questions about contracts

“The fight for Russian Railways contracts has intensified. And now the competition is primarily based on the price of a service or product,” Krapivin believes.

But officials think otherwise. Russian Railways leads among state-owned companies in terms of the number of complaints about purchases, Rachik Petrosyan, deputy head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), told Vedomosti. In 2016, out of 298 complaints considered by the department, 148 were found to be justified.

The auditors of the Accounts Chamber, who checked the use of funds from the National Wealth Fund for the largest Russian Railways project in recent years - the modernization of BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway, noted that the regulation on the purchase of goods of July 2014 allows the state monopoly to increase the scope of work and contract prices by 30% without competitive procedures, arbitrarily change suppliers and place orders with a single supplier. Moreover, the decision on the need to purchase from a single supplier could be made by many managers of all levels - from the president of Russian Railways to the heads of structural divisions. At least in 2017, RZDstroy made the bulk of its purchases from just the only suppliers, Vedomosti was convinced by examining the contracts concluded by the company.

Even at most open auctions, according to the Accounts Chamber, in 2016 the decrease from the initial maximum price was only 0.5%, in rare cases - 1%. That is, the winner is any participant who made one move at the auction. As an example, the Accounts Chamber cites an auction for more than 2 billion rubles. It was attended by the company "Transkomplektavtomatika", the owner of which Yaroslav Kolesnik was the liquidator of one of the structures of Markelov, Krapivin and Usherovich, and the "daughter" of Russian Railways - "Elteza". With an initial price of 2.267 billion rubles. Elteza won the auction, asking for 99.5% of the initial maximum price for services. Then the winner appointed the loser, Transkomplektavtomatika, as the executor of the order. The Accounts Chamber found no affiliation of the companies.

Russian Railways explained that in 2016, at the request of Transyuzhstroy Management Company, part of the work was transferred to other companies in order to prevent delays in the commissioning of facilities, the Accounts Chamber report says. According to the auditors, the assignment of an order worth more than 10 billion rubles. contradicts the goals of developing fair competition, ensuring transparency in procurement and preventing corruption, but does not violate the law.

Russian Railways took into account all the recommendations of the FAS and the Accounts Chamber, a company representative said. The number of bidders has increased this year, he says. Also, now the decision to purchase from a single supplier in Russian Railways can only be made by the president and the heads of the railways. In 2017, Russian Railways, according to its own data, saved only 4% of the initial minimum prices on all contracts, and RZDstroy only 1%.

For the share of contracts with a single supplier worth more than 200 million rubles. accounted for 40%. The high level of purchases from a single supplier is due to the performance by RZDstroy of work at federal facilities in a short time, as well as work that is a natural continuation of previously completed work, when it is necessary to ensure succession, the representative explains Russian Railways.