OREANDA-NEWS. On September 3 member of the state commission on preparation for the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Karelia, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Vladimir Nazarov has visited some industrial enterprises of the republic.

One of the first points was the surface effect vehicle building union ORION located within the territory of the former Avangard Ship-Building Factory. Valentin Chmil, Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia, accompanied the high-ranking guest.

In the middle of 2011 the Association of designers, manufacturers and consumers of the surface effect vehicles has approached Head of the Republic of Karelia with a proposal to establish the surface effect vehicle building center in Petrozavodsk. This project was supported by the Government of the Republic of Karelia and the Border Service of Russia.

Chief Structural Engineer Yuri Varakozov has told about the prospects of the enterprise:

• The Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation provides purchase of various high-speed surface effect vehicles. The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and the Rectification of the Consequences of Natural Disasters, the Federal Space agency of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Sakha Yakutia, Yamal-Nenets autonomous district, as well as a number of foreign partners are very interested in our products. The first successful tests of Orion surface effect vehicle able to carry three tons of cargo and 20 passengers took place in August, 2013.

Besides, according to Yuri Varakozov, creation and siting of production of structural elements of these products and planes of polymeric composite materials on the basis of the center of surface effect vehicles is negotiated with a number of European companies.

• Development and production of surface effect vehicles is very essential. Such equipment is claimed, first of all, in regions of the North, the Far East, etc. Rescuers need it, it is required for organization of carriage of passengers and freight traffic in remote areas. We have to do our best to provide all-round support to this production, - Vladimir Nazarov observed.

Of great interest was the visit to Carbon-Schungite research and development corporation which marketable produce is crashed schungite and schungite powder consumed by enterprises of metallurgical, chemical, and building industries.

Director General Yuri Kalinin has told Head of the Republic of Karelia Alexander Khudilainen and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Vladimir Nazarov about surprising properties of this mineral which allow to use it both for purification of potable water and industrial sewage of organic substances and heavy metals, and in various spheres of economy.

• To improve living standards in Karelia we have to use all the opportunities provided by mineral resources of the republic. Further development of schungite manufacturing may be of great importance here, - Head of the Republic said.

Vladimir Nazarov has made a special mention of the high potential of development of industrial enterprises of Karelia and expressed hope that activities included in the program of preparation for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Karelia will totally contribute to it.