Kuzyk Boris Nikolaevich (1958, Alexandrovka village, Kirovograd region) -

specialist in the field of economic and military-economic theory and management of economic and military-economic processes;

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011)

Boris Nikolaevich Kuzyk was born on October 19, 1958 in Aleksandrovka, Kirovograd region. In 1979 he graduated with honors from the Yaroslavl Higher Military Financial School named after Army General A.V. Khrulev with a degree in financier-economist.

For five years he served in his specialty in the Far Eastern Military District.

In 1987 he graduated with honors from the military faculty of the Moscow Financial Institute

In 1987-1993 - Deputy Head of the Department of Special Works of the USSR Ministry of Defense (dealt with pricing for defense products and financing of military-industrial complex enterprises, financial support for scientific organizations and industrial enterprises of the defense complex, the formation of conversion programs and banking services for the execution of the military budget).

He worked as an assistant to the President of Russia on issues of military-technical cooperation between Russia and foreign countries (1994-1998).

Kuzyk B.N. - Major General of the Reserve. Doctor of Economics, Professor.

Kuzyk B.N. - General Director of the company "New Programs and Concepts" and the National Innovation Company "New Energy Projects".

Boris Nikolayevich Kuzyk - Director of the Institute for Economic Strategies (INES).

Deputy Chairman of the RAS Council for Hydrogen Energy and the RAS Scientific Council for Regional Development. He is a member of the working group under the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the analysis of economic and scientific and technical problems of high and critical technologies in the civil and military-industrial complexes of the country.

May 22, 2003 Kuzyka B.N. was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Social Sciences, specialty "Economics".

December 22, 2011 Kuzyk B.N. was elected a full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Social Sciences

Kuzyk Boris Nikolayevich specializes in the field of economic theory, research of market aspects of the theory of knowledge, management systems for high-tech and innovative processes in the Russian economy.

Kuzyk B.N. - one of the founders of the National Investment Council and the Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers. Member of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy of the Russian Federation.

Kuzyk Boris Nikolaevich - Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology. For a significant contribution to the development of social sciences - in particular, economic science - he was awarded the gold medal. N. Kondratiev (2004), as well as medals to them. V. Leontiev and N. Vavilov.


Head of the NPK holding (New programs and concepts) since 1998; was born on October 19, 1958 in Alexandria, Kirovograd region, Ukrainian SSR; graduated from the Yaroslavl Higher Military Financial School and the Faculty of Finance and Economics of the Moscow Financial Institute, Doctor of Economics, Professor; served in parts of the Far Eastern Military District; worked in the special department for financing the military-industrial complex of the Ministry of Defense; since 1987 - in the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations (MVEC) of the USSR, then - Russia, 1993-1994 - First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; was a scientific consultant of the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation; 1994-1998 - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation for military-technical cooperation with foreign countries; in 1998 he became president of the Institute for Economic Strategies; one of the founders and leaders of the Russian arms trade system and the founder of the NPK holding, which united many of the largest enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex; an active participant in international negotiations on military-technical cooperation; author of the books "Russian Weapons: War and Peace" (1997), "Behind the Scenes of a Breakthrough" (1998), "The Defense Industrial Complex of Russia: a Breakthrough into the 21st Century" (1999), "Choice of the Century" (2000), "Nobody, except for us" (2000), "Russia in the world arms market" (2001) and other publications; has the military rank of "major general"; Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation; married, has two sons.

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KUZYK Boris Nikolaevich

October 19, 1958). Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation BN Yeltsin from 06/28/1994 to 02/11/1998 Born in Alexandria, Kirovograd Region, Ukrainian SSR, in a working-class family. Mother was a pharmacist. Educated at the Yaroslavl Higher Military Financial School (graduated with honors) and at the military faculty of the Moscow Financial Institute. Major General. Doctor of Economics, Professor. Since May 22, 2003 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a graduate of a military school in the first category, he received the right to choose his place of service. He chose the Far Eastern Military District, which became the reason for a joke: "Only Kuzyks go further than the Volga and Oka." He began his service as the head of the financial service of the battalion stationed at the Rozengartovka station, five kilometers from the Chinese border. In five years he rose to the head of the financial service of the army. In 1984, with the rank of captain, he came to Moscow to enter a financial institute. After graduation, he worked at the Central Financial Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, then as deputy head of the Special Works Directorate. In 1993-1994 First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation. Then he was transferred to the State Company for the Export and Import of Arms and Military Equipment Rosvooruzhenie, formed in November 1993 after the merger of the former Soviet export offices of the SMI (Oboronexport), GTU (Spetsvneshtechnika) and GUSK (MVES). The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation forwarded information to the Presidential Security Service for taking administrative measures on the fact that B.N. Kuzyk received a foreign exchange bonus in the amount of $37,885. In 1994, scientific consultant of the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation, headed by A. V. Korzhakov. Since 06/28/1994, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin. He dealt with issues of military-technical cooperation with foreign countries. One of the founders and leaders of the Russian arms trade system. He had a direct telephone with the president and could communicate with him personally. Received the nickname "Boris Nikolaevich little." Almost all materials and documents that came to the name of the president from various departments and other branches of power in the direction he supervised passed through it, which then, with his conclusion, came to B. N. Yeltsin and, after reading, came back with resolutions and instructions to specific persons in administration, government, other federal and regional authorities. As an aide to the president, he had a small staff of two or three people. He performed a difficult task - he was looking for markets for military equipment and weapons, since Russia abandoned the Soviet approaches in this area and stopped supplying ideologically close countries with weapons and military equipment. The former Soviet markets for the sale of weapons were conquered by powerful competitors, and it was almost impossible to squeeze them out of there. According to the official regulations, he had the right to apply to the president with official memos of an analytical nature, to propose various initiatives and proposals not only in his own direction. He often used this right, did not shy away from domestic political problems, although he spent most of his official time on business trips. He was a close friend and colleague of the head of the state company "Rosvooruzhenie" A. I. Kotelkin. Their names have appeared in many negative media publications related to the arms trade. Relations did not work out with the new head of Rosvooruzhenie, E. N. Ananiev, and with Prime Minister V. S. Chernomyrdin, who, from January 1998, established closer control over the military sphere. On February 12, 1998, he was relieved of his post with the wording "due to the reduction in the staff of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation." According to the journal Profile (1998, No. 37, p. 6), inspectors from the Main Control Directorate of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, headed by N.P. Patrushev, uncovered serious financial abuses in the state company Rosvooruzhenie: “A former assistant Boris Yeltsin for military-technical cooperation Boris Kuzyk, as well as some members of the current presidential administration. They say that after reading the act of audit, Yeltsin instructed the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Skuratov to conduct a thorough investigation and punish those responsible. After his resignation, he headed the private military-industrial holding New Programs and Concepts (NPK), the main field of activity of which is high technology enterprises of the machine-building, aviation and shipbuilding complex. NPC's assets are $1.1 billion. In 2000, B. N. Kuzyk ranked 43rd in the list of the most influential entrepreneurs in Russia. In April 2001, the presentation of the 800-page book "Russia in the World Arms Market" took place, prepared by a team of authors led by B. N. Kuzyk and published in a circulation of 1270 copies. The work is devoted to trends in the global arms market and in the trade in Russian weapons and military equipment. In May 2002, Ruslan Pukhov, the publisher of the Arms Export magazine, and Konstantin Makienko, a journalist, filed a lawsuit with the Zyuzinsky Intermunicipal Court of Moscow, stating that fragments of articles published by in Arms Export magazine. R. Pukhov and K. Makienko demanded to recognize them as co-authors and to pay them monetary compensation in the amount of 500 minimum wages. Without waiting for a court decision, B.N. Kuzyk agreed to a settlement agreement. The journalists agreed to compensation in the amount of 500,000 rubles, waiving the initial demand to recognize them as co-authors of the book. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology. He was awarded the Church Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Jumped from a 130-meter bungee. Married, father of two sons.

Major General Doctor of Economics, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Economic Strategies Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, graduate of the faculty in 1987. Worked at the Central Federal University of the Moscow Region, in the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation for military-technical cooperation.

“In my destiny, you became the main one, my dear street,” is sung in a famous song. The Military Finance and Economics Faculty of the Financial Academy, whose 65th anniversary we, its graduates, are celebrating, has become the main one in my destiny.

I made my first step into the profession of a financier-economist after graduating from the Yaroslavl Higher Military Financial School. I was sent to serve in the Far Eastern Military District, where I went through an important school for me, because. working and service conditions were difficult. But we did not choose a place, but went where our military financial service was needed.

In 1984 I entered the faculty. It was a period of stable work, when the restructuring of education, carried out in 1977, was felt in everything: as an educational process, in the formation of an educational and methodological base, in the high target aspiration of the teaching staff.

The listeners saw a new level of approach to our training, a new level of requirements in everything. Of everything that is necessary in the formation of a qualified specialist in the financial and economic service, I would like to highlight a number of very important points.

First of all, we were attracted in the work of teachers by the constant desire to develop in us a sense of system, purposefulness and activity, which are necessary in the subsequent organization of practical work. This stemmed from a general understanding of the role of finance in the economic process, and as for the finances of the Armed Forces, because service was the leading link in building a more or less rational economy for the army and navy. It was she who was entrusted with organizing economic work in the troops, taking into account its results and developing criteria for its evaluation, and managing economic processes in construction and industrial production in the Armed Forces.

We all felt that this was not only a statement of an important fact, but also providing us with real tools for realizing the special role of the finances of the Armed Forces, such as the courses “Economics of the Armed Forces”, “Military Economic Analysis”, “Military Economic Information”, etc.

For me, the most interesting were those areas of the educational process that dealt with the strategic problems of the country, the economy of the Armed Forces, and in these problems - issues of military production and pricing for military products. I often had to apply to the Department of Economics of Military Production, where I always received the necessary help from wise and highly competent professors - V.P. Rachinsky, N.L. Suprun, SP. Volkov. I am especially grateful to Professor Maya Semyonovna Dutova, who developed my interest in the economics and finance of military production. She supervised my thesis work, and for the first time I realized what a real scientist is like, how much he is superior to us with his knowledge. Maya Semyonovna later became the supervisor of my Ph.D. thesis. With great warmth I always remember our long communication and interaction with SM. Ermakov, V.I. Urazov, N.Z. Kunz.

There were 104 students on our course, including V.Yu. Tsyplakov, A.S. Ivanov, N.D. Kalyukin became major leaders in the system of financial and economic services, N.V. Borovsky, M.E. Koshkin, G.V. Savin - scientists who worked in Moscow and Yaroslavl.

The knowledge in the economics of military production and pricing for military products, obtained at the faculty, was implemented by me while working at the Central Financial Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, and later at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, where I had to deal with the issue related to the production and export of weapons. Apparently, my activity in this area was assessed positively, and in June 1994 I was appointed assistant to the President of the Russian Federation for military-technical cooperation with foreign countries.

After leaving this post in 1998, I continued to work in the military-industrial complex, but also had the opportunity to work actively in the research field. I would like to note with gratitude that I made my first step into big science with the help of the Military Faculty, dear to me: I defended my Ph.D. dissertation in its Dissertation Council.

My scientific activity now, in connection with my election as an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is connected with economic forecasting and the development strategy of Russia, the civilizational development of the world, and the knowledge economy. Along with this, as before, I continue to work in the field of military production and military security problems, i.e. I continue what I was taught at the Military Faculty of Finance and Economics at the Financial Academy.

In conclusion, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the staff of the faculty, to all those who continue to work for the good of the Motherland or take a well-deserved rest.

Russian businessman and economist, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011), Director of the Institute for Economic Strategies.

"Biography"

Boris Nikolaevich Kuzyk was born on October 19, 1958 in the village of Alexandrovka, Kirovograd region.

In 1979 he graduated with honors from the Yaroslavl Higher Military Financial School (specialty - "financier-economist"), and in 1987 - also with honors - graduated from the military faculty of the Moscow Financial Institute.

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Academicians with bulldog jaws

In Soviet times, high-ranking personalities became academicians in exceptional cases; this was a violation of party modesty. Examples are isolated - Andrei Vyshinsky, Boris Ponomarev, Sergei Trapeznikov. In democratic times, customs have changed. Nobody was involved in statistics, but there is a feeling that the current elections to the Academy have turned into a promenade show for VIPs. Only in recent years, Aleksey Gordeev and Viktor Ishaev, Ruslan Khasbulatov and Boris Berezovsky, Salambek Khadzhiev and Boris Kuzyk, Vladimir Sister and Grigory Dvas, Garegin Tosunyan and Andrey Kokoshin

Monuments will be guarded by former employees of the administration of St. Petersburg

Andrey Antonov, who currently heads the Pokrovsky Charitable Foundation, will become the head of the GU. Since 2003, the organization has been raising funds for the construction of the churchyard of the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Nevsky Forest Park of the Vsevolozhsky District. The founders of the fund are Andrei Antonov, rector of St. Sophia Cathedral in Pushkin, archpriest Gennady Zverev, director of the Institute for Economic Strategies Boris Kuzyk, ex-official of Smolny Anatoly Razdolgin (worked at KUGI) and Gennady Yavnik, general director of the Konstantinovsky Foundation, which restored the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna.

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NP INES includes ANO NII INES plus there is a separate ANO "Institute of Economic Strategies". NP INES was founded in 2004 by Alexander Ageev and Boris Kuzyk.

Director of the institute Alexander Ageev "held senior positions in the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade of Russia, the military-industrial complex MAPO, the Energia group," the institute's presentation brochure says. According to the Spark system, Ageev heads several research organizations: for example, ANO Center for the Development of Strategic Projects Club of Orthodox Entrepreneurs (among the co-owners is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation), NO Arctic Fund for Advanced Projects and Research, and LLC International Academy Futures Research”, which is located in the same office as INES.

“Lord, do not let me fall out of Your right hand!”

- "Deep-quagmire." Praised. One of my best friends, Tikhon (Shevkunov), then still a hieromonk, slipped this book to him on the plane when they flew to New York together. His Holiness read the manuscript and gave his blessing for publication. Thanks to books, I became a priest. Metropolitan Ignatius, who has been heading the Khabarovsk and Amur department since 2011, read my books and made an offer to move to Komsomolsk-on-Amur and take care of the prisoners. Financially I was helped by a wonderful person Boris Nikolaevich Kuzyk, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, doctor of economic sciences and at the same time an entrepreneur. So I ended up at the harsh banks of the Amur. On April 12, 2012, I was ordained a priest.

“Putin personally warned”: for which Pugachev demanded $12 billion from Russia

According to Forbes, Sergey Pugachev became interested in shipbuilding back in the late 1990s. Two St. Petersburg shipyards - Severnaya Verf and Baltiysky Zavod - turned out to be in his field of vision. By 2002, Boris Kuzyk, an assistant for military-technical cooperation to President Boris Yeltsin and a friend of Alexander Kotelkin, then general director of Rosvooruzhenie, became the main owner of the St. Petersburg Severnaya Verf shipyard.

Kuzyk expected to receive a contract for the construction of two destroyers for China worth more than $1 billion. The case was considered settled, but the owner of the Baltiysky Zavod, Alexander Nesis, decided to compete for the same contract. “A competition was announced and promptly held, which was won by the Baltiysky Zavod. Then Kuzyk remembered Pugachev and turned to him for help,” wrote Forbes. The competition was eventually canceled, and the contract for the destroyers returned to the Severnaya Verf, which was owned by Pugachev himself.

President's mistake

Sergei Pugachev says that he became interested in shipbuilding in the late 1990s. “Boris Kuzyk came to me, he was an assistant for military-technical cooperation to President Yeltsin and a friend of Alexander Kotelkin [general director of Rosvooruzhenie in 1994-1997], I knew him very well,” says Pugachev. “Kuzyk represented the owners of Severnaya Verf and asked for help with financing, I was interested, I studied for a year what we have in the country on this topic, what we can offer, and decided that this is a gold mine.”

Pugachev got a chance to develop this vein only in 2002. By this time, Kuzyk had already become the main owner of Severnaya Verf and expected to receive a contract for the construction of two destroyers for China worth more than $1 billion. A competition was announced and promptly held, which was won by the Baltic Shipyard. Then Kuzyk remembered Pugachev and turned to him for help. The competition was canceled, and the contract for the destroyers returned to Severnaya Verf, which was owned by Sergei Pugachev. Kuzyk declined to comment, Pugachev did not disclose the details of the acquisition of Severnaya Verf.

“Pugachev has long wanted to enter the military-technical sphere. In the mid-1990s, for example, Kotelkin was invited several times to the 14th building of the Kremlin [where the presidential administration was located] and recommended that the MPB be included in the settlement system for export military contracts, says a former high-ranking official who oversaw arms exports. - Kotelkin did not agree, Pugachev went through Kuzyk.

Elections to the Great Academy of Sciences are scheduled for May 22. An impressive line has already formed for Corresponding Members in the Department of Social Sciences. In full academics, the queue is shorter. It turned out that, in addition to two American historians, the director of the Institute for the USA and Canada, Sergei Rogov and the head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Andrei Kokoshin, the remaining GRU general is attached to the full academicians, financier Boris Kuzyk …

So, who are our biggest social scientists?! Sergei Stepashin - head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Gordeev - Minister of Agriculture, Sergei Baburin - Vice Speaker of the State Duma, Gennady Semigin - leader of the movement " Patriots of Russia”, Grigory Dvas - Vice Governor of the Leningrad Region, Vladimir Shults - Curator of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the FSB, Mikhail Ershov - Vice President of Rosbank.

For the title of "full" academician, the queue of applicants is shorter. Two Americanists and... General Kuzyk. Academicians Dmitry Lvov, Gennady Mesyats, oligarch Vladimir Potanin with a large bag of money, and Putin's speechwriter Jokhan Pollyeva with feminine charm at the ready loom behind him as powerful support ... Kuzyk is a former assistant to the former president for international military-technical cooperation, major general. This nimble gentleman is a member of the Council on Hydrogen Energy, and the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the Union of Mechanical Engineers, and the National Investment Council ... And everywhere he is a “general”, everywhere he is His Excellency.

And, as you know, a general is not a rank. This is happiness!

Scientists are unreliable people. A year ago, academician Dmitry Lvov, no matter how hard he tried, could not persuade his colleagues to cast their votes for the vice-president of Rosbank, Mikhail Ershov, under whose supervision the daughter of the academician works. I had to run for the second time, this year…

Well assimilating the “concepts” by which today’s Russian society lives (it’s not for nothing that he is already a corresponding member in the department of precisely social sciences!) Boris Nikolaevich Kuzyk took a nap in his New Energy Technologies company and his Institute of Economic Strategies not just one, but immediately many, gentlemen, who will have the great honor of voting for his candidacy in May.

And for two years in a row they have been carefully bringing him into the scientific “light”, like a loving aunt who has been sitting in girls for a niece.

Wherever they bring him, Mr. Kuzyk explains to a patient audience that their scientific backwater will flourish unheard of, thanks to the “hydrogen energy program” headed by him, because through his efforts, huge investments from all over the world are literally “just about” pouring in here. Again, hydrogen behaves best in fuel cells, where its energy is converted into electricity without combustion processes and harmful emissions. According to the "Hydrogen Future Act" adopted in 1996 in the United States, the entire economy of the country should switch to hydrogen as the main energy carrier in the next twenty years.

And what about us?! In a country with the world's largest reserves of energy resources, the energy sector is simply a disaster. Even in Moscow.

And the patient outback listens to the speaker, swallowing the verbal sauce of "concern for the future."

Well, what kind of educated person is he if he doesn't know how to twist the card?!

The ability to "take on a lot" former GRU officer Boris Kuzyk polished to perfection in the early 90s, when two dozen "Korzhakovites" headed by Alexander Kotelkin came to Rosvooruzhenie, where he worked.

When Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov was dismissed, our hero Boris Kuzyk began to be distracted from the selfless service to the Motherland by bores from the FSB. They even initiated criminal case No. 580/96 against the Interfininvest bank, one of the founders of which was Mr. Kuzyk. It seems that it was through this bank that four hundred million dollars were “laundered” for “black” arms supplies to the Middle East.

As soon as Kuzyk vacated a cozy office in the Rosvooruzhenie office, he was immediately left behind.

Kuzyk and the oligarch Potanin


A memorial gift to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation M.M. Kasyanov on the day the corvette was laid down at Severnaya Verf

In the year of the “default”, the oligarch Vladimir Potanin did not let the talents of a wonderful organizer go to waste, through whose efforts only the lazy did not sell weapons in Russia. The oligarch created the New Programs and Concepts company for him and entrusted her with a controlling stake in the St. Petersburg Severnaya Verf, which produces warships. Kuzyk managed to recapture the ports and shipyards from the encroachments of one of the leaders of the Tambov group, Ilya Traber. Owning 47.09 percent of the shares of the seaport and seated on the board of directors next to vice-governor German Gref, the “Tambov wolf” left for Spain forever, selling his shares to an offshore company owned by millionaire communists.

And the man who felled such a powerful "oak" switched to organizing a logging operation in the Leningrad region and extracting sea sand used in the construction of new highways in St. Petersburg.

Kuzyk and Admiral Kuroyedov


At an impromptu meeting with journalists, the governor of St. Petersburg IN AND. Matvienko and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy V.I. Kuroyedov

But the sea pulled him irresistibly. The Chinese Navy has offered $1.4 billion to build two upgraded destroyers for them. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov gave the contract to the Baltic Shipyard. But Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov canceled the decision of his deputy and transferred the contract to Severnaya Verf.

A Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Kuroyedov transferred to the "Northern" state order for the construction of a corvette - the first ship in many years for its own fleet, and not for a foreign customer. And he promised an order for another twenty such ships. Although at Severnaya Verf the construction of each ship cost 200 million rubles more than at the Baltic Shipyard.

Our hero has been friends with the admiral since the time when Kuroyedov tried very hard to attract the attention of influential people from the Kremlin to himself, a provincial, by a brilliant sale for scrap of 240 ships out of 270 he had in the Pacific Fleet.

The Baltics did not want to endure lawlessness, and at a meeting of the board of directors they decided not to supply boilers for Chinese destroyers, already paid for and accepted by military acceptance, to impudent competitors from Severnaya Verf. The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg ordered the rioters not to play the fool and to hand over the boilers of Severnaya Verf within a month.

The Chinese patiently waited for the end of all this farce.

Their admirals really wanted to get destroyers with a unique weapon system.

The Kremlin, unlike the Chinese, did not want to endure a showdown on the stocks. Our hero was clicked on. He obediently sold a controlling stake in Severnaya Verf to Mezhprombank, which quickly outlived the Makhnovshchina in a serious export business, while he himself took up simpler and less concrete matters.

Academy of Sciences is not a monastery


With RAS Vice President Academician Gennady Mesyats

Kuzyk easily charmed the scientific "admirals". Not having enough complete information about our hero, the elders did not consider it shameful to accept into their ranks a sharp grip-cut off, capable of feeding them. In April 2001, a magnificent presentation of the 800-page volume "Russia on the World Arms Market" took place. An anthem was thought for the guys who briskly trade in Russian weapons and do not forget themselves. A hymn that smoothly turns into the defense of dissertations.

And there was a scandal.

Ruslan Pukhov, the publisher of Arms Export magazine, filed a lawsuit demanding that the distribution of the book be stopped. The authors of the “most serious study” simply ripped off a lot of texts from his journal, without tiring themselves with references to the original source.

And military financier Boris Kuzyk (on the picture) On May 22, 2003, he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the department of social sciences. Despite the trail of scandals trailing behind him.

It's up to the Pope to be a sinless angel. A member of the correspondent these things is not necessary.

During the years that he headed the Higher Attestation Commission, Gennady Mesyats, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, learned how to turn any sergeant major into Voltaire! If he already made the head of the motor depot of the Academy of Sciences a doctor of science, then he would spit to take Kuzyk to the academicians. In 2004, under the leadership of Kuzyk, a powerful team of authors produced the monograph "Russia in Space and Time", with a volume of 336 pages. Squeezing two thousand years of Russian history into such a small volume, the gentlemen-researchers discovered "Structural repetition of both Russia's strategic problems and the reaction of the authorities and society to them."

Well, isn't there a person who is able to see SUCH (!) Of the gold medal of N. Kondratiev and the medals of V. Leontiev and N. Vavilov ?!

At the same time, few people remembered the book of the poet Velemir Khlebnikov, The Boards of Fate, published in the years of war communism on bad yellow paper. Fascinated by the mystical mixture of history and mathematics, he argued that all major events in Russia would take place with a cycle of twelve years (1905 - 1917 - 1929 - 1941 - 1953 ...) And what is amazing - he did not demand academic titles and laureate medals.

Kuzyk was given all three medals at once. Kondratiev, Leontiev and Vavilov. For outstanding "contribution" to economics. Professor Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev, who carried out the agrarian reform in 1917 (very successful!) and in 1923-1928 created the first long-term plan for the development of agriculture and forestry in the USSR, would turn over in his grave if he knew what kind of "heir of glorious deeds" they composed for him today's academics.

However, if “corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences” Boris Berezovsky can buy the Order of St. Constantine, once adorned on the chest of Peter the Great and Alexander Suvorov, for not the most breathtaking money, why can’t Mr. Kuzyk buy himself a couple of authoritative pendants? ! In the marketplace, there is a price for everything. Pay and get! Busy with the battle for banknotes all his life, General Kuzyk is somewhat of a true Einstein.

Once again about "Count Dunduk"


Long before Pushkin wrote poetry, “Count Dunduk sits at the Academy of Sciences!” - in Russia there was already a division into natural and "unnatural" sciences. In the era that ended in August 1991, the Academy also had enough “dunduks” who wrote “strategies for economic development”, but were not able to explain where in the “nationwide” state, where “labor is not sold or bought”, the concept “ wage".

But "under the Soviets" he would not have been allowed to enter the Department of "Unnatural Sciences" on the threshold. Which of Kuzyk is a scientist is still unknown. But he is a man of business, a man of money, and he knows better than others that for the time being “innovations” are good budget money, and they don’t even try to control their spending.

Discussion of socio-economic aspects of modern Russia with Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences O.T. Bogomolov

So, Kuzyk goes to the academician in the Department of Social Sciences, but he cannot present anything other than the “hydrogen program” as his own work. But he is pushed by Academicians Dmitry Lvov (Economics Section) and Gennady Mesyats (Physicist), and behind the backs of these titans one can see Vladimir Potanin with a bag of money and Jokhan Pollyeva (Putin's speechwriter) with feminine charm. The famously advertised joint program of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University and Norilsk Nickel company to create a scientific and technological reserve for breakthrough energy projects quickly stalled. Having invested about 40 million dollars in the work in 2004, the Norilsk Nickel company considered the result to be inconsistent with the expenses. More or less intelligible reports counted approximately $ 19 million.

Where are the other 21?!

Rumors spread around the Academy of Sciences that, supposedly, too many “authorities” gathered in the “money capture group”, who had gained a hand in transferring budget funds to “extra-budgetary”. They wonder which of the academicians broke off how much. In the meantime, they are guessing, to manage the implementation of developments and to pay for the results of the work of research teams, the company "New Energy Projects" created by Norilsk Nickel "under Kuzyk" undertook.

Norilsk Nickel owns 76% of its shares, the rest belongs to the company's CEO Boris Kuzyk.

And the Russian Academy of Sciences was not given a single action ...

And a terrible suspicion creeps into the souls of the recently enthusiastic fans of the "Hydrogen Program" that all these talks in the ranks about "energy-saving technologies" and "renewable energy sources" are just a cover for another seizure of state property. The well-known principle of a scam, when at first the victim is “given” something to lull vigilance, and then everything is taken away. About ten years ago, Deputy Prime Minister Potanin came up with "shares-for-shares" auctions, which gave him and his friends for free what the country's economy was based on. And the current "fighters for environmentally friendly energy" quickly turned Norilsk into a large gas chamber, where you can not breathe from industrial emissions. Can Potanin reason like this:

“You guys, give my friends from Norilsk Nickel the monopoly right to trade in the results of scientific developments and, in addition, the Energia rocket and space corporation that you absolutely do not need. And we will sell everything! We will not leave a living place!”

Kuzyk is neither Kurchatov nor Korolyov. Only a very sick head is able to equate the ability to sell everything that comes to hand, and the ability to achieve results at the head of an army of scientists.

At the Business People 2004 awards ceremony with Rector of Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. Sadovnichim

The best of the worst is not good. But among academicians, like all of us, thinking is most often not logical, but figurative. And our hero knows how to live well in the image. Here the elders dance around him, repeating in unison, paraphrasing the immortal Panikovsky: “You are sawing, Borya, sawing!”.