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The Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) summed up the results of the professional skill contest among young people for the “Best in Profession” title. A total of 32 employees received their awards.

Any Kazan Helicopters employee could try his hand in 7 skills, such as Aircraft Assembly, Electrical Installations, Process Engineer, Labour Protection, Helicopter Equipment Installations, Team Production, and Mechanical Engineering CAD.

Experts were participants in the National Competition of High-Tech Cross-Industry Skills. When developing competitive tasks for company’s contests, due account was taken of WorldSkills standards; Kazan Helicopters is constantly improving the competition, adapting it to international standards.

The company traditionally participates in many events aimed at improving the level of training, popularising blue-collar and white-collar jobs. The plant’s employees demonstrated a high level of training at the WorldSkills Kazan 2019: a team of 8 participants and 1 expert won the competition in the Lifecycle Management skills.

Based on information by Russian Helicopters Holding press service

Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of Rostec Corporation) received a manufacturer’s certificate for serial production of Mi-38, the latest civilian helicopter, from the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation). The first rotorcraft will be delivered to the customer before the end of this year.

Due to the technical solutions employed, the helicopter surpasses other peers in its class in terms of maximum payload, passenger capacity, and key performance indicators. With a maximum take-off weight of 15.6 tonnes, the helicopter is capable of taking 5 tonnes of payload on board or on an external sling. The passenger version of Mi-38 can carry up to 30 people.

The helicopter’s flight range in the transport configuration with additional fuel tanks is up to 1000 kilometres. Mi-38 is equipped with new domestically-made engines, wreck-resistant fuel system, and additional landing gear for soft ground and steep snow landing.

“This year, the Kazan Helicopters manufactured its first civilian Mi-38 with a luxury cabin, which these days takes part in the Dubai Airshow. The certificate obtained from the Federal Air Transport Agency confirms that the company is prepared for serial supply of these helicopters for both commercial operators and governmental customers”, said Managing Director of Kazan Helicopters Yuri Pustovgarov.

Based on information by Kazan Helicopters press service

Experts of the Kazan Helicopters (Russian Helicopters holding), as part of the Rostec Corporation team, won silver medals at the 6th National Competition of High-Tech Cross-Industry Skills 2019. Competitions were held in Yekaterinburg from October 28 to November 1.

A total of 21 Kazan Helicopters employees took part in the Competition in three skills, winning silver medals in two of them, in Composites Technology and Life Cycle Management skills.

Before the national competition, participants and experts included in the main team of the Rostec Corporation underwent training as part of the Rostec Academy team-training event, which took place in September in the Moscow Region. The programme included educational blocks on informed leadership, effective interaction, and stress resistance, as well as training on work standards and technologies for achieving success at the WorldSkills competitions.

In total, Rostec team members won 39 medals, of which 15 golds, 11 silvers and 10 bronzes, in the main standings of the 6th National Competition of High-Tech Cross-Industry Skills 2019. Rostec experts received another 3 awards following the results of the competitions in the Eurasian standings of the WorldSkills Hi-Tech 2019.

Based on information by Kazan Helicopters, photo courtesy of rostec.ru

Russian Helicopters holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) takes part in the Russia-Africa Economic Forum being held on October 23-24, 2019 in Sochi. The Holding’s display located in the Manufacturing Industry area features an upgraded Mi-35P attack helicopter, a civil multi-purpose Ansat in executive version, and a mobile service centre for repairing Mi-8/17 helicopters.

African countries operate more than 250 helicopters of the Mi-24/35 type. The Holding offers all its interested African partners upgraded Mi-35P helicopters with new engines, updated sighting and navigation, and an expanded armament system.

More than half of Soviet and Russian-made helicopters in Africa are aircraft of the world-famous Mi-8/17 family of various modifications. Container-type mobile service centres are designed to carry out major repairs of Mi-8/17 helicopters and their modifications at customers’ aviation bases. The centres can be deployed anywhere without a power source: they are equipped with their own diesel generator.

From the civilian line of Russian Helicopters, the Forum features the lightweight multi-purpose Ansat in executive version with a luxury cabin. It has one of the largest cabins in its class that can be used for cargo, passenger and medevac transportation, S&R operations, and patrols.

Based on information by Russian Helicopters, photo courtesy of Marina Lystseva

On October 14, 2019, the All-Russian No-Turnstile Week campaign was launched in the republic as part of the large-scale Work in Russia vocational guidance project. The campaign is a set of actions aimed at improving career guidance, awareness of activities in major Russia’s enterprises, and promoting engineering trades and specialties that are in demand in industries.

The main idea of ​​the project is an interactive introduction of schoolchildren and students to activities to industrial companies located in the region.

The No-Turnstile Week is held annually in the third week of April and October. In the spring of 2019, the campaign was supported by over 40 industrial and commercial enterprises in Tatarstan: Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Tatneft Presscomposite, Kazan Aviation Plant, Zelenodolsk Shipyard, and others.

On October 14, a tour of the Bugulma Electric Pump Plant was conducted for 23 students of 9th grades of Tatar Gymnasium No. 14 in the city of Bugulma. The guests were also shown a film about the enterprise.

Kazan Helicopters opened its doors for 68 students of the 9th grade of Secondary School No. 54. The schoolchildren visited the museum of the company and made a tour of its production facilities.

Based on information by Kazan Helicopters press service

Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec Corporation) handed over two medevac Ansat helicopters manufactured by the Kazan Helicopters to the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK). They are intended to be used in the Russia’s air medical service development programme.

Ansat helicopters were delivered for further operation to the SKOL Airline. They will be engaged in the priority project “Ensuring Timeliness in Providing Emergency Medical Aid to Citizens Living in Hard-to-Access Areas of the Russian Federation”.

The light multipurpose Ansat helicopter was designed by the Kazan Helicopters Design Office. The twin-engine rotorcraft can be used for passenger and VIP transportation, cargo delivery, environmental monitoring, and as a medevac transport. In August 2019, the Federal Air Transport Agency certified an eightfold increase in the resource of the Ansat helicopter’s fuselage.

Ansat with a medical module has a number of serious competitive advantages over peers in its class. First of all, it is a lower cost of maintenance, training, and repairs. In addition, Ansat is certified for the operation at outdoor temperatures ranging from -45°С to +50°С. High-altitude tests of Ansat have also been completed to confirm that it can be operated in mountainous terrain at altitudes up to 3,500 metres.

Based on information by Kazan Helicopters press service

A delegation from China visited the Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation). The event took place during a working visit by Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Li Zhanshu to Tatarstan as part of his official visit to Russia. The delegation was accompanied by Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin.

The guests took a tour of the unit assembly department to see how the helicopters of the Mi-8/17, Mi-38 family and Ansat are being built. The delegation also visited the final assembly of helicopters. In addition, the company’s flight test facility launched a flight presentation of the Ansat helicopter, which participated in the demonstration tour of the Russian Helicopters Holding in the Southeast Asia countries.

The cooperation of the Kazan Helicopters with PRC began in the 1950s. Over the years, China acquired 186 medium-lift helicopters, including Mi-4, Mi-8, Mi-17, and Mi-17V-5. In addition, Mi-4 under the name of “Harbin Z-5” was produced under license from 1958 to 1979 at the Chinese plant No. 122, where a total of 545 helicopters were built. The full-scale production of these rotorcrafts was organised with the participation of experts from the Kazan Helicopters.

In autumn of 2018, the Russian Helicopters Holding signed a contract to supply 20 Ansat helicopters in the interests of the China Association of Disaster Medicine.

Based on information by Kazan Helicopters press service

On September 4, 2019, the Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) marks the 79th anniversary since its founding.

In honour of this event, over 90 factory workers were awarded with certificates of appreciation and gratitude from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, the Rostec Corporation, the Russian Helicopters Holding, and the Federal Service for Military Technology Cooperation.

The birthday of the enterprise is considered to be September 4, 1940, when the Leningrad Aviation Plant No. 387 was established. With the outbreak of WWII, it was evacuated to Kazan and merged with the local factory of transport parts No. 169.  During the war, the plant manufactured about 11,000 Po-2 light night bombers.

The turning point in the plant’s history was the start of production of the first domestic mass-produced helicopter Mi-1 in 1951. But a company’s brand identity is the legendary Mi-8/17, one of the most numerous helicopters in the aviation history, which is produced even today and is operated in 92 countries throughout the world.

Since 1997, the Kazan Helicopters has been certified as a helicopter developer: serially produced Ansat light twin-engine helicopter recently marked 20 years since its first take-off on August 17, 1999.

Based on information by Russian Helicopters Holding

On August 1 to August 5, the Bilyar Museum Reserve hosted the Talent Discovery Summer School of the Kazan Open University of Talents 2.0 and the Salat Foundation. The event brought together over 1200 attendees from all over Tatarstan.

Based on the school, an expert team of 10 employees from the Kazan Helicopters conducted vocational guidance classes. The experts introduced the students to the basic technologies, current situation, strategic growth priorities, as well as key challenges and problems in their respective areas of helicopter industry.

At the forum, the Kazan Helicopters presented the design laboratories “Reducing Weight and Increasing Flight Range” and “HR Policies and Staff Relations”. Experts accompanied the student teams when they formed their hypotheses and developed projects on the specified topics. Following the results, the winners were chosen, presenting the most viable ideas. They received the right to a tour of the company’s production facilities, internship at the company, participation in the TechnoPRORIV forum, and target admission to the A.N. Tupolev KNITU-KAI.

Kazan Helicopters and Kazan Open University of Talents 2.0 signed a cooperation agreement in June 2017. One of their main areas of activities is professional tests; a total of 6281 people attended them over two years.

Based on information by Russian Helicopters Holding

An employee of the Kazan Helicopters (Russian Helicopters Holding, part of Rostec Group) Viktor Artamonov received a high award, the title of the Honoured Machine Builder of Tatarstan. The award ceremony took place in the Kazan Kremlin.

Viktor Artamonov was among 50 people invited to the republic’s award ceremony. Chairman of Tatarstan’s State Council Farid Mukhametshin thanked the awardees for their work, achievements, and contribution to the development of Tatarstan.

According to the Decree issued by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, the title “Honoured Machine Builder of Tatarstan” was awarded to Viktor Artamonov for his contribution to the development of the domestic helicopter industry and many years of fruitful work. Moreover, the honorary titles were conferred earlier to another four employees of the Kazan Helicopters.

Victor Artamonov came to the Kazan Helicopters immediately after his army service in 1978 as an electrical installer of aircraft. Since then, he has received several certificates of acknowledgement from the company’s management, has become an excellent quality worker, was conferred the title of the company’s Honoured Long-Service Worker and a Certificate of Honour from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia. In addition, Viktor Artamonov was awarded the commemorative medal “25 Years of the End of Hostilities in Afghanistan”.

Based on information by Kazan Helicopters - Russian Helicopters Holding