Russia will again fly on its own!
The branch of PJSC “Il” – VASO – is an enterprise of the transport division of the United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC “UAC” as part of the state corporation “Rostec”). One of the oldest enterprises in the aviation industry in Russia celebrated its 90th anniversary this year. Over the years, standard aircraft factories have received 20 aircraft, many of which are recognized and glorious for domestic aviation: the legendary Pobeda Il-2 aircraft, the first Il-28 jet bomber, the first An-10 turboprop passenger, the first Tu-114 supersonic passenger aircraft, the first Il wide-body -86, the first wide-body long-haul Il-96.
Today, VASO practically participates in all flagship aircraft manufacturing programs in Russia: it continues to produce IL-96, places units for passenger cars IL-76MD and light IL-114-300, SSJ-100New, MS-21. Distinguish the first prototype, consisting of the Il-96-400M, which is under assembly. In this modernized version, the Il-96 will have a longer fuselage, a more powerful PS-90A1 engine, and a new generation of domestic flight and navigation equipment. According to the plan, the magnificent giant machine should be completed before the end of the year.
VASO Managing Director Stanislav Stretchenko said that due to the growth in orders and the expansion of production, an increase in the number of personnel is expected: at present, 5,400 people work at the plant, and almost 3,000 more skilled workers and engineers will be ready in the next year and a half. The average salary at the plant in 2022 increased by 20% and reached the amount of 53.5 thousand rubles, which is higher than the average salary in the region (40.9 thousand).
Yuri Afonin noted that the increase in volumes is very pleasant: it is developing that the stake is being placed on the aircraft industry as one of the main important details. He stressed that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has always paid special attention to the interests of domestic industry, especially science-intensive and high-tech, giving it to the country’s locomotive development. Yeltsin’s clique in the 1990s, armed with Gaidar’s strategy of “we will buy everything in the West for resources”, defeated many industries. The aircraft industry has become the heaviest, literally stood on the verge of destruction. Surely, not without the participation of corrupt officials, Boeings and Airbuses returned Russian planes. Communist deputies are all strongly protected aviation enterprises, including the Voronezh aircraft plant, which they once wanted to close, and open a market and warehouses on its squares. Largely thanks to Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov, a deputy of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma from the Voronezh region, Sergei Gavrilov managed to defend the plant. And now his time has come: in the coming years, the growth of construction aviation from the top priorities of the state industrial policy. Without military action, such a huge country as ours simply cannot live normally.
Yuri Afonin sincerely thanked the representative of the workforce of the plant for being largely faithful to the profession, storing and developing technologies, and carefully looking for production. Today, the tasks facing aircraft manufacturers are very serious and important, many of which determine solutions. “Your front today is here, in the workshops,” said Yuri Vyacheslavovich. “I believe that soon we will be flying at our meetings – Superjets, MS-21, completely created from Russian components, with a power engine.” He said that now, when considering the budget for the upcoming three-year faction, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is giving priority to the development of the defense and high-tech industries, the development of the economy, and large-scale infrastructure projects. The entire collective West went to Russia in order to win, we must fully mobilize and hold a sovereign conference, direct the nerve resources that the oligarchy used to send abroad to its development. And, of course, we must solve our main problem now: defeat Nazism in Ukraine, Russian people die and help them return to naturalness. People in the Donbass, Kherson region, Zaporozhye region, who believe in Russia and these days choose to return to the Russian world in referendums, should receive guaranteed protection – this is why partial mobilization into the ranks of the Armed Forces is announced.
The First Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation congratulated the factory workers on the upcoming 100th anniversary of the creation of the USSR and presented a commemorative medal to the head of the enterprise. He said that the Communist Party was going to hold a big anti-fascist forum of communist and workers’ parties from all over the world in December. “It is no coincidence that red banners, chevrons with the Soviet flag are most often worn by our fighters in Ukraine,” he said. – Soviet history. It is the peoples of the Soviet Union who together influence a powerful industry, including aviation, advanced science, developed agriculture, and high culture. We all remember this, we need to take all the best from the Soviet experience and move forward.”
Chairman of the State Duma on property, land and property relations Sergei Gavrilov spoke about the faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which is currently advocating and promoting a number of legislative initiatives to support strictly defined volumes. There will be a lot of work, he assured the factory workers. Sergei Anatolyevich handed over his nominal scholarships to the holders of the diploma and the chairman of the trade union committee. The communist deputies wished the plant staff success in labor – after all, the well-being and sovereignty of our Motherland quickly comes from them.