Anniversary of the Holding "Sukhoi"

 

Anniversary of the holding "Sukhoi"
15 years ago, in 1996 Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on the establishment of the Aviation Military-Industrial Complex "Sukhoi". The composition of this integrated structure, it was decided to include the Sukhoi Design Bureau, the aircraft factories in Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and several other enterprises. The head of AMIC at the end of that year was appointed Alexei Fedorov.

Ivan Karev

However, the full holding structure of AMIC "dry" then did not - mainly for the reason that the heads of production plants were not interested in the loss of independence. This supported the directors and regional authorities.

In 1998, Alexei Fedorov returned to the Irkutsk aircraft factory, and the new head of AMIC "Sukhoi" Mikhail Pogosyan was, who was chairman of the Board of Directors of "Experimental Design Bureau named after PO Dry ". He participated in the creation of the Su-32 Su-33 family of multifunctional fighter Su-30 and led the work on designing and building the Su-47 "Berkut". In 1999 he became CEO Pogosyan Sukhoi Design Bureau. It should be noted that this decision was very visionary, leader of the company could concentrate on building a holding company structure and optimize the company's lineup.

By decision of Mikhail Pogosyan had stopped work on some military and civilian programs, who had no real market prospects. In return, began to create long-term regional aircraft. The main task, which was scheduled to decide in the course of this project is to diversify the company's product line, which along with the successful military should be civil and popular model. Practice has shown that this decision was fully justified. In the military segment, the emphasis was placed on the improvement and modernization of the family grave Su-27/30 and the creation of the fifth generation aircraft.