True, Boris Mikhailovich immediately asked not to ask about versions of the tragedy. The task of his commission, formed promptly in the Ministry of Transport, is to provide assistance to the victims and relatives of the victims. The cause of the crash is being determined by the technical commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC). What is she doing now? Let us remind you that after this, the IAC and Rostransnadzor, under the patronage of the Ministry of Transport, must develop recommendations for airlines in order to prevent similar accidents in the future.
Russian newspaper | Boris Mikhailovich, one of the passengers, stated in a television interview that firefighters arrived at the scene of the accident only after 20 minutes. Have you checked this fact?
Boris the King | If this had happened, there would have been significantly more casualties. Aviation fuel could catch fire. But the airport's emergency rescue service worked efficiently and quickly. Within three minutes, the first emergency crew arrived at the scene of the disaster and put out the emerging fire. And then rescue work began, including with the active participation of employees of the line department of internal affairs.
Representatives of local authorities arrived, and ambulance crews quickly arrived. The victims were immediately sent to hospitals. There are currently 27 people there. They are provided with everything necessary. Three operations were performed. 15 people are in moderate condition. As doctors say, no one’s life is in danger.
RG | How did the crew behave after the accident? Some passengers, again in television interviews, claim that they were forced to save themselves - open the door and so on.
King | On Sunday we discussed this issue at a commission meeting and at a meeting with the governor of the Samara region. And they came to the conclusion that the crew behaved with dignity after the accident. The young flight attendant Oleg Kosmachev, who actively assisted in the evacuation of the plane’s passengers, especially distinguished himself.
RG | Why this time, not a state commission was created, as usual after plane crashes, but a ministerial one?
King | First of all, this is due to the fact that for the first time the airline took full responsibility for damages. She is ready to pay 75 thousand dollars to the relatives of the victims, and also, depending on the injuries received, to pay money to the wounded.
RG | And the state won’t pay anything anymore?
King | This issue, I think, remains to be considered by the government. It’s difficult for me now to say what decision will be made.
RG | Currently, according to the law, compensation payments to the relatives of the victims amount to 100 thousand rubles. So the company also increased the amount. Without her goodwill, people would have received significantly less. As far as we know, the Ministry of Transport at one time wanted to increase compensation to 75 thousand dollars. Did not work out?
King | Now there is an order from the government, and the ministry has begun to work on this issue with other departments - the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development. And I think we will soon make a whole series of changes to several laws. They will also concern an increase in compensation payments.
RG | They say that business class passengers are the most likely to suffer in plane crashes. This is true?
King | It all depends not on the class of seats, but on the nature of the accident. In this case, people who were sitting in rows 11-12 were injured, where the fuselage was destroyed.
RG | Recently, Transport Minister Igor Levitin said that a program for the phased replacement of Tu-134 and Tu-154 has been developed. The first such aircraft appeared in 1967. And now there are about 270 aircraft. If the crashed car had been younger, would it have survived the hard landing? Or does it depend not on the aircraft, but on the situation?
King | Without the results of the examination, it is very difficult for me to answer this question. There were several hard touches to the ground. And it’s hard to say whether the new building would have withstood this load.
RG | On the day of the disaster, television showed a story about last year’s accident in Irkutsk. The remains of two girls were mixed up there, and the mother had to bury her daughter twice. Could this happen again in Samara?
King | There is a difference between these two disasters. In Irkutsk, we took samples from all the dead for genetic examination. A large number of corpses could not be identified at all. And now, according to doctors, all the dead are subject to normal identification.
RG | You have already met your relatives. What questions do they ask most often?
King | We immediately sent the relatives of the victims for identification - this worried them the most. When people arrived, everything was ready for this work. Relatives of the wounded were worried about the health of their loved ones. All of them are provided with access to hospital wards. Transport has been specially allocated for this purpose. A group of psychologists is working with relatives.
Transneft was strengthened by Boris Korol
// The ex-head of the Russian Technologies aviation holding found a new job
Boris Korol, the former head of OJSC Aviakompaniya, which never became the management company of the collapsed Russian Technologies aviation holding, has been appointed vice-president of Transneft. He replaced Igor Solyarsky, who left the state-owned company due to a transfer to another job. Mr. Korol’s responsibilities at Transneft are very close to his powers at the Ministry of Transport, where he oversaw transport security issues.
Yesterday, Transneft AK reported that, at the proposal of the company's president Nikolai Tokarev, Vice President Igor Solyarsky was excluded from the board due to a transfer to another job, and Boris Korol was elected instead. The press service of Transneft explained that Mr. Korol was appointed vice president of the company on August 9 and is in charge of security, personnel management, general business and protocol organizational services. Previously, these duties were performed by Igor Solyarsky, who yesterday did not want to discuss with Kommersant the place of his new job and the reasons for leaving Transneft. It was not possible to contact Boris Korol yesterday.
Boris Korol was born on August 11, 1955 in the village of Promov, Volyn region. In 1984 he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in jurisprudence; from 1974 to 2001 he served in the armed forces of the USSR and the Russian Federation. From 2001 to 2004 he was Deputy Minister for Taxes and Duties, from 2004 to 2006 - Deputy Head of the federal service of the same name. In February 2006, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, where he oversaw transport security issues until June 2009.
In June 2009, Boris Korol was appointed general director of OJSC Airlines, a legal entity designed to consolidate the aviation assets of the state corporation Russian Technologies and the Moscow government in order to create a large aviation holding company, Rosavia, capable of competing with Aeroflot. However, the shareholders of the Airline were unable to agree on a merger of assets, and at the end of 2009, Rostekhnologii, through the mediation of the government, decided to transfer state-owned stakes in six airlines to Aeroflot.
Immediately after this decision, a number of employees of the failed air carrier filed applications with the prosecutor's office, demanding payment of wages since June 2009, and Boris Korol, as the general director of the debtor, was forced to communicate with prosecutors. As Kommersant managed to find out, the Airline nevertheless paid the staff in June of this year. True, according to one of the company’s former employees, the money was paid not from the Russian Technologies budget, but under a specially prepared agreement with Orenburg Airlines.
“The creation of Rosavia from the very beginning looked like an almost impossible task, so it is not surprising that the management of the Airline was unable to cope with it,” notes Oleg Panteleev, head of the analytical service of the Aviaport agency. In his opinion, Mr. Korol is well familiar with the range of responsibilities in his new position at Transneft from his work in the Ministry of Transport, and “people with such extensive experience in administrative work are rarely left out of work.” Alexey Kokin from IFC Metropol also agrees with him, according to whom the new appointment will not have a significant impact on the work of Transneft, since it does not affect the main areas of the company’s activities.
Chairman of the Management Board, President of Transneft PJSCMore details
In 2007, he was appointed President of Transneft PJSC.
From 2000 to 2007, he was the General Director of the state enterprise Russian Foreign Economic Association Zarubezhneft (since 2004 - Zarubezhneft OJSC).
He worked in the mining industry of the USSR, then in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II, III and IV degrees, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of Honor, the Order of Friendship, 5 medals, and a Certificate of Honor from the Government of the Russian Federation. He was awarded the titles “Honorary Worker of the Fuel and Energy Complex”, “Honorary Oil Worker”, and a Letter of Gratitude from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Awarded the honorary badge of the Novgorod region “For charity and patronage of the arts.”
He was awarded the Order of Friendship, II degree, of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and was awarded the title “Honorary Worker of the Oil Pipeline Industry of Kazakhstan.”
Awarded two Orders of Labor, 1st degree, and the Order of Friendship of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
He graduated from the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute in 1973 with a degree in Electrification and Automation of Mining.
Year of birth: 1950.
Grishanin Maxim Sergeevich
First Vice President of Transneft PJSCMore details
In 2012, he was appointed First Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
In 2011, he was appointed Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
Since 2010, he held the position of Director for Corporate Finance of OJSC Aviation Holding Company Sukhoi.
From 2006 to 2010, he worked as senior vice president for economics and finance at Sukhoi Civil Aircraft CJSC.
Previously worked in various positions in the field of financial and economic activities.
He was awarded medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, I and II degrees, and a Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.
In 1995 he graduated from the Christian Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany, with a degree in Political Economics.
Year of birth: 1968.
Andronov Sergey Alexandrovich
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In the period from 2007 to 2014 - Director of the Department for the Export of Oil and Petroleum Products, Assistant to the President of OJSC NK Rosneft.
From 2006 to 2007, he served as General Director of CJSC YUKOS Export Trade and First Deputy General Director for Wholesale Sales and Trade Management of TD YUKOS-M.
In 1991 he graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Physical Culture named after. P.F. Lesgafta. In 1997 he graduated from Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky with a degree in Economics and Management of an Industrial Enterprise.
Year of birth: 1969.
Kalanda Larisa Vyacheslavovna
Vice President of PJSC TransneftMore details
In 2016, she was appointed Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
From 2006 to 2016, she held the position of Vice President of PJSC NK Rosneft (since 2012 - State Secretary - Vice President, since 2015 she also served as chief of staff of the company).
In the period from 2007 to 2016, she was the Acting General Director of ROSNEFTEGAZ JSC.
From 2003 to 2006, she worked as vice president for legal support of business at TNK-BP Management OJSC.
Previously, she held senior positions in other commercial organizations.
Awarded the Order of Honor, Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation.
Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.
In 1994, she graduated from graduate school at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus with a degree in Public Law and Administration.
In 1985 she graduated from the Sverdlovsk Law Institute named after. R.A. Rudenko, majoring in Jurisprudence.
Year of birth: 1964
King Boris Mikhailovich
Vice President of PJSC TransneftMore details
In 2010, he was appointed vice president of Transneft PJSC.
In the period from 2009 to 2010, he worked as General Director of JSC Airline.
From 2006 to 2009 he was Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation.
From 2001 to 2005, he was Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Taxes and Duties, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Taxes and Duties.
He was awarded medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, I and II degrees, the medal of Labor Glory, III degree, and a Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.
Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.
In 1981 he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in Law.
Year of birth: 1955.
Margelov Mikhail Vitalievich
Vice President of PJSC TransneftMore details
In October 2014, he was appointed Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
From 2011 to 2014, he was the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for cooperation with African countries.
In 2008, he was appointed Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Sudan.
In 2003, he was elected vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from Russia.
In November 2001, he was elected chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs.
From 2000 to 2014, he represented the administration of the Pskov region in the Federation Council.
In 1999, he was deputy chairman of the board of RIA Novosti, head of the Russian Information Center (Rosinformcenter) under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In 1996 - 1998 - deputy chief, head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Public Relations.
Awarded the Order of Honor, the Order of Friendship, the Pushkin Medal, the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation, the Certificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and other Russian and foreign awards.
In 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, specializing in “historian-orientalist” and “referent-translator”.
Candidate of Political Sciences.
Year of birth: 1964
Revel-Muroz Pavel Alexandrovich
Vice President of PJSC TransneftMore details
In 2008, he was appointed vice president of Transneft PJSC.
In the period from 2006 to 2008, he was the chief engineer of OJSC Verkhnevolzhsknefteprovod.
He worked in engineering and management positions in companies of the Transneft system.
Awarded the Order of Honor, medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, I and II degrees. He was awarded the title “Honorary Oilman” and a Letter of Gratitude from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Awarded the medal of the Republic of Tatarstan “For Valiant Labor”.
In 2000 he graduated from the Ufa State Petroleum Technical University with a degree in “Design, construction and operation of gas and oil pipelines”, in 1996 - from the Chelyabinsk State Agricultural Engineering University with a degree in “Agricultural Mechanization”.
Candidate of Technical Sciences.
Year of birth: 1974.
Sapsay Alexey Nikolaevich
Vice President of PJSC TransneftMore details
In June 2012, he was appointed vice president of Transneft PJSC.
From 2010 to 2012, he held the position of Deputy Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
From 2008 to 2009 - General Director of TsUP ESPO LLC.
He worked in companies of the Transneft system as an engineer, chief engineer, head of a number of regional oil pipeline departments, and Deputy General Director for Operations of OJSC Sibnefteprovod.
Awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of Honor, and the Order of Friendship. Awarded the title "Honorary Oilman".
In 2001, he graduated from the Ufa State Petroleum Technical University with a degree in “Design, construction and operation of gas and oil pipelines and gas and oil storage facilities.”
Year of birth: 1972.
Skvortsov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Vice President of PJSC TransneftMore details
In 2019, he was appointed Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
From 2010 to 2019, he held the positions of Advisor to the President of Transneft PJSC, Advisor to the President - Deputy Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
Awarded the Order of Honor.
In 1995, he graduated from the Institute for Retraining and Advanced Training of Personnel in Financial and Personnel Specialties of the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In 1985 he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in Law.
Year of birth: 1958.
Sharipov Rashid Ravelevich
Vice President of PJSC TransneftMore details
In 2016, he was appointed Vice President of Transneft PJSC.
In the period from 2013 to 2015, he held the position of Vice President - Head of the Administration of OJSC NK Rosneft.
In 2013, executive vice president of OJSC Gazprombank.
Previously, he held senior positions in commercial organizations.
In 1993 he graduated from the Western California School of Law with a Master of Comparative Law.
In 1991 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a degree in International Relations.
Boris Korol, the former head of OJSC Aviakompaniya, which never became the management company of the collapsed Russian Technologies aviation holding, has been appointed vice-president of Transneft. He replaced Igor Solyarsky, who left the state-owned company due to a transfer to another job. Mr. Korol’s responsibilities at Transneft are very close to his powers at the Ministry of Transport, where he oversaw transport security issues.
Yesterday, Transneft AK reported that, at the proposal of the company's president Nikolai Tokarev, Vice President Igor Solyarsky was excluded from the board due to a transfer to another job, and Boris Korol was elected instead. The press service of Transneft explained that Mr. Korol was appointed vice president of the company on August 9 and is in charge of security, personnel management, general business and protocol organizational services. Previously, these duties were performed by Igor Solyarsky, who yesterday did not want to discuss with Kommersant the place of his new job and the reasons for leaving Transneft. It was not possible to contact Boris Korol yesterday.
Boris Korol was born on August 11, 1955 in the village of Promov, Volyn region. In 1984 he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages with a degree in jurisprudence; from 1974 to 2001 he served in the armed forces of the USSR and the Russian Federation. From 2001 to 2004 he was Deputy Minister for Taxes and Duties, from 2004 to 2006 - Deputy Head of the federal service of the same name. In February 2006, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, where he oversaw transport security issues until June 2009.
In June 2009, Boris Korol was appointed general director of OJSC Airline, a legal entity intended to consolidate the aviation assets of the state corporation Russian Technologies and the Moscow government in order to create a large aviation holding company, Rosavia, capable of competing with Aeroflot. However, the shareholders of the Airline were unable to agree on a merger of assets, and at the end of 2009, Rostekhnologii, through the mediation of the government, decided to transfer state-owned stakes in six airlines to Aeroflot.
Immediately after this decision, a number of employees of the failed air carrier filed applications with the prosecutor's office, demanding payment of wages since June 2009, and Boris Korol, as the general director of the debtor, was forced to communicate with prosecutors. As Kommersant managed to find out, the Airline nevertheless paid the staff in June of this year. True, according to one of the company’s former employees, the money was paid not from the Russian Technologies budget, but under a specially prepared agreement with Orenburg Airlines.
“The creation of Rosavia from the very beginning looked like an almost impossible task, so it is not surprising that the management of the Airline was unable to cope with it,” notes Oleg Panteleev, head of the analytical service of the Aviaport agency. In his opinion, Mr. Korol is well familiar with the range of responsibilities in his new position at Transneft from his work in the Ministry of Transport, and “people with such extensive experience in administrative work are rarely left out of work.” Alexey Kokin from IFC Metropol also agrees with him, according to whom the new appointment will not have a significant impact on the work of Transneft, since it does not affect the main areas of the company’s activities.
Alexey Ekimovsky, Olga Yagova