Moscow. September 3. INTERFAX-JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" (USC) will complete the transfer of the main office to St. Petersburg this fall, about 1.5 billion rubles will be spent on the move, the head of USC Alexey Rakhmanov told Interfax on Friday.
"The move is being completed. Most of the employees have already settled in the office on Vasilyevsky Island. There will be another "wave" in the autumn - when those who work with the subject of the state defense order will move to St. Petersburg-they need premises with special conditions that meet the requirements of preserving state secrets. Such conditions are being created now, " Rakhmanov said.
"We will understand the final cost of the relocation after several years, when both situational and regular expenses, including business trips to Moscow, will become obvious. We initially assumed that the total amount would be about 1.5 billion rubles, " he said.
Earlier, USC reported that the move will require 1.4 billion rubles.
Rakhmanov previously said that 120 people remain in the Moscow office of USC.
He reported that in St. Petersburg, USC consolidated all the representative offices of its enterprises on one site.
"It is obvious that St. Petersburg is the "anchor" region for the corporation, the main part of shipyards and design bureaus is concentrated here. Many key customers (the Main Headquarters of the Navy, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft) also settled in the northern capital. At the same time, Moscow remains a place of meetings and decision-making for the parent company. In this regard, we will have to learn to live in two cities, " Rakhmanov said in an interview with Interfax in November 2020.
"First of all, we expect positive dynamics in the management of the USC regional network from the move. It is important for us to achieve closer cooperation both with enterprises and with the most important shipbuilding universities, " Rakhmanov said at the time.
JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" was established in March 2007. 100% of the shares of JSC " USC " are in federal ownership. The holding includes about 40 design bureaus and specialized research centers, shipyards, ship repair and machine-building enterprises. USC enterprises build military and civilian ships.
