Metro construction is not limited to tunneling and construction of station complexes. An underground palace, like an ordinary residential building, needs running water, electricity, and sewerage. The head of the engineering communications department, Vladimir Kuznetsov, told us how to breathe life into a new station.
Vladimir Anatolyevich, what is the work of your department?
– We control the construction of engineering communications: from excavating trenches to putting utility networks into operation. We do water supply, sewerage, drains, heating systems, electricity, landscaping. In preparation for digging underground tunnels, we remove existing communications and arrange bypass roads.
The company cannot do without our department. For example, if the fire water supply is not connected at the launch station, there will be no launch itself, since the safety of passengers depends on this. Therefore, the completion of work on engineering communications should coincide day after day with the completion of the entire construction.
What kind of workday do you spend?
– Standard – working with documents, communicating with the heads of departments of the complex and traveling to construction sites to monitor production. But when carrying out urgent matters, I can be on site all day long.
How did you get into the Moscow Metrostroy?
– Your relationship with the company began when you worked in the previous organization – Mosteplosetstroy OJSC. Since 2011, Mosmetrostroy and I have been in the same team on the construction of the Alma-Atinskaya station. Utilities were removed. After the reorganization of MTSS, I was invited to Mosmetrostroy. He worked on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya and Sokolnicheskaya lines, and now on the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line. Over the past six years, not a single station has been surrendered without my participation.
You graduated from the Kamyshensk Military Construction Command School. Why did you choose this particular specialization?
– I followed in the footsteps of my father, who was a military builder and tested nuclear weapons on Novaya Zemlya. At one time he told me that pilots and tank crews are, of course, interesting, but a builder is a creative profession that will last a lifetime. And so it turned out.
How did the service influence you?
– It strengthened your character, taught you that a word given once must be kept and obligations fulfilled. The most memorable moment was working at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the launch of the Energia launch vehicle and the subsequent flight of Buran in 1988. I, still young at that time, was lucky enough to be part of a team of great military builders. You worked there both in the winter cold and in the summer heat.
You have moved around a lot in your life. What city could you call your favorite?
– Arkhangelsk is listed as my place of birth, although I was born on Novaya Zemlya. During the years of service there were moves to Kamyshin, Kostroma, Tula. At the same time, Moscow has always been my hometown - my parents lived on Voikovskaya. This is where I went to school. I consider Murmansk my second city, where I graduated from ten classes, from where I entered college.
What is the secret of your success in your profession?
– For me, family comes first, of course. If things are not going well at home, then there will be no success at work. If it weren't for my wife Svetlana, I wouldn't be who I am now. She is my mascot.
The editors of "Metrostroevets" congratulate Vladimir Anatolyevich on his 60th birthday and wish him new labor achievements!