Here we return to the main topic of our series of investigations about Alabuga - the assembly of combat drones. After all, the bulk of the production of combat UAVs is planned to be organized by hand.
Now about 1000 people study at the polytechnic. Several hundred of them are already involved in the assembly of "Shaheds", which are supplied from Iran. First of all, the source claims, we are talking about guys from fifteen to seventeen years old who entered college after the ninth grade of school. Initially, the choice in favor of underage students was made due to the fact that adults are, as a rule, students of the last year of college. They were already involved in other projects, doing other important things, and there was no point in involving them. Now this is no longer the case. All possible forces are now being transferred to the project for assembling the Shaheds. Some productions are stopped, and some are completely liquidated.
In October last year, the Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities of Russia Irek Fayzullin and the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov were presented with new projects of Alabuga. Among others - the production of house kits. It was planned to build a huge, unique for Russia production, with an investment of 21 billion rubles, capable of producing ready-made block-rooms, already with communications, interior and exterior decoration. It takes only a few days and a minimum amount of labor and equipment to assemble a house from such blocks. In the spring of 2022, the leadership of Alabuga planned to supply these blocks to Ukraine for mass development of the occupied territories.
According to our information, this project was completely closed and disbanded, and all the students involved in the project were transferred to collect Shaheda. At the time of our conversation with the students of Alabuga, students continued to arrive at the production of kamikaze drones.
- Literally the day before yesterday, one hundred and fifty new students, from the second and third year. When to train them? From projects from other departments, everyone was transferred to our project, because now all the forces, all the money go to it, - complains Alyona, a student of Alabuga Polytechnic University, who works on the project for assembling Shahids.
The salary of the students involved in production depends on the fulfillment of the plan. On average, this is an amount in the region of 30-40 thousand rubles. Students receive official salaries - employment contracts are concluded with them. But the work schedule approved by the contract does not correspond to reality. Students are not paid extra for overtime: “We also worked on the eighth and ninth of May. Nobody paid us anything. Nobody paid anything for overtime work on weekends either,” says one of the students.
Students say that sometimes they have to work for several days without sleep and "virtually without food." When asked why the students themselves do not rebel against such an attitude towards themselves, one of them answers: “Everyone is afraid. I can't say it at all. The management is very intimidating about this . ”
Those who are involved in the assembly of drones are forbidden to talk about what they do, under the threat of expulsion. In clause 6.1 of the training agreement, says student Alena, it is said that they are forbidden to disclose information about Alabuga in general, about the stages of training. In case of violation of these requirements, the student will be forced to pay from one and a half to two million rubles.
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