The story started with an ordinary press conference of Alexey Podshchekoldin, the current head of the Road Safety Inspectorate. In his speech he did not make any groundbreaking discoveries, but simply stated the well-known fact that we cannot be proud of domestic cars, and first of all, passenger cars.
Give me Rosavto!
Mr. Podshchekoldin rightly stated that maintaining the current status quo does not bode well for us, since educational institutions no longer train qualified specialists who tomorrow would have to work in factories or car repair shops. Vocational training programs are also woefully behind the times; they do not take into account new car designs or new technologies.
The respected Alexey Gennadievich sees a way out of the catastrophic situation in the creation of a new state-owned company. As examples he mentions the construction of icebreakers under the auspices of Rosatom, the launch of spacecraft by Roscosmos and the production of weapons by Rostec. Hence his confidence that the effective functioning of the industry requires nothing more or less than another state-owned company: Rosavto.
Its responsibilities include the establishment of new production facilities, the distribution of orders among operating companies, the conduct of scientific activities through controlled institutes and the training of qualified personnel. After all, until 1991 there was a Ministry of Automobile Industry with a workforce of 500 people and a dozen industrial institutes! Now 17 to 20 people at the Ministry of Industry and Trade deal with the full range of issues in the automotive industry.
Mega great story
These generally banal considerations seriously agitated Oleg Moseev, the ex-president of ROAD, who held this position from 2016 to 2020 and has been acting vice president there since 2011. Here are excerpts from his outraged message to his successor:
– Let’s go point by point. Planning, production of cars and spare parts – this is us, first of all, in the Soviet Union. And secondly, we have the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and there is a department for the automotive industry and railway transport <…> Why is there still a need for a state-owned company? I have a question. Moreover, I do not understand at all how you can plan the production of cars and spare parts if these are non-state-owned enterprises, and even foreign companies, on which we rely, that is, Chinese companies. In addition, this organization must communicate with the government in general and the Ministry of Industry and Trade in particular on issues such as the distribution of orders and the establishment of new factories. This is generally the Soviet Union. Not only that, when the state starts to regulate something, it always ends up basically the same. In relations with the state, the state always wins, not private industry. For me, this is all a mega-great story, and I hope that all this will end nowhere…
Like Rosatom or like Rusnano?
In general, I also hope that a new management monster will not appear in our country, which is far from devouring unlimited budgetary resources. And I am not one of the admirers of the USSR either. However, a unique argument like “this is the Soviet Union” does not inspire confidence because it is not based on facts.
As for the attacks on the state and the praise of private business, I can say one thing. Yes, public administration is far from sugar coated. But private companies in mechanical engineering and other industrial sectors have done nothing for this country. Manufacturing giants like TagAZ, Sollers, Derways and others like them have given us a lot? Thus, the sacred trust in the beneficence of the “hand of the market”, which decides everything, must be left to the same “saints” of the 1990s, where it was born.
Seriously speaking, there are complaints about Podshchekoldin’s idea. The Soviet Ministry of the Automobile Industry with its staff and affiliated institutions only demonstrated how not to work, as evidenced by the model range of domestic cars at the end of the USSR era. And who said that the new state-owned company will operate as Rosatom and not as Rusnano? Alexey Gennadievich himself honestly said that everything depends on the leader. It undoubtedly follows that there are absolutely no objective guarantees of the effectiveness of Rosavto’s work.
And secondly. There is no need to do what our public servants like and put the cart before the horse. First you need to adopt a state program to revive the industry, calculate it economically and financially, and only then create a number of organizations designed to guide the process.
Chairman of ROAD Alexey Podshchekoldin.Photo globallookpress.com
Ex-president of ROAD Oleg Moseev.Photo “Car marketer”.
The story started with an ordinary press conference of Alexey Podshchekoldin, the current head of the Road Safety Inspectorate. In his speech he did not make any groundbreaking discoveries, but simply stated the well-known fact that we cannot be proud of domestic cars, and first of all, passenger cars.
Give me Rosavto!
Mr. Podshchekoldin rightly stated that maintaining the current status quo does not bode well for us, since educational institutions no longer train qualified specialists who tomorrow would have to work in factories or car repair shops. Vocational training programs are also woefully behind the times; they do not take into account new car designs or new technologies.
The respected Alexey Gennadievich sees a way out of the catastrophic situation in the creation of a new state-owned company. As examples he mentions the construction of icebreakers under the auspices of Rosatom, the launch of spacecraft by Roscosmos and the production of weapons by Rostec. Hence his confidence that the effective functioning of the industry requires nothing more or less than another state-owned company: Rosavto.
Its responsibilities include the establishment of new production facilities, the distribution of orders among operating companies, the conduct of scientific activities through controlled institutes and the training of qualified personnel. After all, until 1991 there was a Ministry of Automobile Industry with a workforce of 500 people and a dozen industrial institutes! Now 17 to 20 people at the Ministry of Industry and Trade deal with the full range of issues in the automotive industry.
Mega great story
These generally banal considerations seriously agitated Oleg Moseev, the ex-president of ROAD, who held this position from 2016 to 2020 and has been acting vice president there since 2011. Here are excerpts from his outraged message to his successor:
– Let’s go point by point. Planning, production of cars and spare parts – this is us, first of all, in the Soviet Union. And secondly, we have the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and there is a department for the automotive industry and railway transport <…> Why is there still a need for a state-owned company? I have a question. Moreover, I do not understand at all how you can plan the production of cars and spare parts if these are non-state-owned enterprises, and even foreign companies, on which we rely, that is, Chinese companies. In addition, this organization must communicate with the government in general and the Ministry of Industry and Trade in particular on issues such as the distribution of orders and the establishment of new factories. This is generally the Soviet Union. Not only that, when the state starts to regulate something, it always ends up basically the same. In relations with the state, the state always wins, not private industry. For me, this is all a mega-great story, and I hope that all this will end nowhere…
Like Rosatom or like Rusnano?
In general, I also hope that a new management monster will not appear in our country, which is far from devouring unlimited budgetary resources. And I am not one of the admirers of the USSR either. However, a unique argument like “this is the Soviet Union” does not inspire confidence because it is not based on facts.
As for the attacks on the state and the praise of private business, I can say one thing. Yes, public administration is far from sugar coated. But private companies in mechanical engineering and other industrial sectors have done nothing for this country. Manufacturing giants like TagAZ, Sollers, Derways and others like them have given us a lot? Thus, the sacred trust in the beneficence of the “hand of the market”, which decides everything, must be left to the same “saints” of the 1990s, where it was born.
Seriously speaking, there are complaints about Podshchekoldin’s idea. The Soviet Ministry of the Automobile Industry with its staff and affiliated institutions only demonstrated how not to work, as evidenced by the model range of domestic cars at the end of the USSR era. And who said that the new state-owned company will operate as Rosatom and not as Rusnano? Alexey Gennadievich himself honestly said that everything depends on the leader. It undoubtedly follows that there are absolutely no objective guarantees of the effectiveness of Rosavto’s work.
And secondly. There is no need to do what our public servants like and put the cart before the horse. First you need to adopt a state program to revive the industry, calculate it economically and financially, and only then create a number of organizations designed to guide the process.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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