Moscow. October 15th. INTERFAX - The relocation of the main office of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) to St. Petersburg has been completed, small technical details remain, the head of USC Alexey Rakhmanov told Interfax on Friday.
"In principle, the relocation process has been completed. There are minor technical nuances," Rakhmanov said.
On September 3, in an interview with Interfax, Rakhmanov said that USC will complete the transfer of the main office to St. Petersburg this fall, and about 1.5 billion rubles will be spent on the move.
"The move is being completed. Most of the employees have already settled in the office on Vasilievsky 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 at the time.
"We will understand the final cost of relocation after several years, when both situational and regular expenses, including business trips to Moscow, become obvious. We initially assumed that the total amount would be about 1.5 billion rubles," he said on September 3.
Rakhmanov said earlier 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.
