The biography of Vidyaev

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Vidyev studied at the evening department, without interruption from production. At that time, this method was very common, although it required great efforts to try to stand at the machine during the day, and in the evening to bite the granite of science! GPI Vidyev finished in m, after which his rapid career growth began. According to people who knew Vidyaev, he was always distinguished by great performance, high demand to himself, the desire to improve qualifications and even professional foresight.

The most productive years of Vidyaev’s life fell on the period, which is now considered the “golden age” of the Gorky Automobile Plant. From the year, the permanent director was Ivan Kiselev, and Alexander Prosvirin worked as the chief designer to go. At this time, several workshops were reconstructed and a number of new ones were built, including the building for the experimental design department.

The number of workers approached thousands, housing construction was carried out in the Avtozavodsky district, the social sphere developed. Gas then was one of the flagships of Soviet industry. However, by the year, when Boris Vidyev, his predecessor Nikolai Pugin, became the general director of the car factory, he went to increase - to the post of Minister of Automobile Industry of the USSR, the situation has changed dramatically.

At the same time, the losses from the marriage amounted to 10 million. The construction of housing and social facilities, which the gas was famous for decades, was also reduced. The enterprise had even more severe times: the collapse of the USSR, a violation of the prevailing ties with the member factories, the transition to a market economy. Vidyev managed not only to preserve the plant, personnel, a technological base, carry out technical re -equipment, but also to launch a completely new family of cars into production.

This is the so -called “LCV class” - an international designation of light transported commercial vehicles, including pickups, low -tonnage vans and trucks N1 with a full weight of not more than 3.5 tons, as well as minibuses with a capacity of up to 17 passengers. There were two reasons for this. The first is for many years that the policy of double -purpose products existing in the USSR.

The approach was like this: in case of war, any tractor should be able to carry guns, any bus - to carry a soldier, any truck - to serve army transportation. Until the xs, all trucks were even painted exclusively in green, so that in case of something they do not waste time applying camouflage! Well, the light transported cars for the war were in no way suitable for the exception to be something clumsy "loaf" - UAZV.

The second reason is, oddly enough, the fight against speculation. The Soviet government believed that it was the LCV class that was most in demand among underground merchants, crooks and merchants of deficit. It is no coincidence that cars with a body of the station wagon for a long time were produced only in limited quantities, and it was generally strictly prohibited to sell wagons in private hands.

As a result, the niche was filled, as they say, with the world along the thread: low -quality Yerevan vans, Izhevsk “heels” and Polish Visa and Zhuk Polish van, made on the basis of the antediluvian “Victory”. Already at the end of the x, it became clear that three-, five-ton trucks, for which the planned economy oriented gas, in the context of a nascent market economy, is not needed in such quantities.

To survive, the company needed an alternative. General Director Boris Vidyev, unlike their Ulyanovsk colleagues, who simply shoved the development of a new one and a half -ton truck, realized in time that the country needed such a machine. Therefore, he supported design and experimental work in every possible way.

In the year, active work began on the design of the car, and in the turning point, it was possible to assemble the first layout of the future Gazelle. Then the car passed preliminary, acceptance and resource tests. The volume of work was colossal, because the truck, on the basis of which was then supposed to create a van and minibus, unlike other basic models, was created completely from scratch, without any backlog.

The release of gas solemnly started on July 20. Medium -tonnage “dual -purpose” trucks in the market are not in demand. But the Gazelle remained and actually pulled the plant from a protracted crisis. Otherwise, Gas, most likely, would have repeated the fate of his colleague - Zila, who also specialized in medium -tonnage trucks and government limousines and, despite all the efforts of the Moscow authorities, sunk into history.

Alas, instead of the well -deserved glory of the Vidyev, on the contrary, he fell into disgrace.Despite the fact that the director enjoyed the great authority and respect of the labor collective, the governor Nemtsov did not like the methods of his work. The latter loved to recall his confrontation with Vidyev almost as the first battle with the "oligarchs." Like, he grew up an “idealist” and did not suggest that some uncles dare to “disobey state-ownedness”.

He behaved like an oligarch, defiantly and brazenly, he did not pay taxes in the regional budget at all. For this, as a governor, without long exhortations, I fired the director from work. What has begun here! The workers overlapped the roads, threatened with a strike ... What they just did not make me cancel the decision! But I won the first, the battle: Vidyaev remained a pensioner.

” In fact, Nemtsov, who positioned himself with a “democrat”, but at the same time preferred the authoritarian style of government and the cult of his personality, most likely, did not like Vidyev’s independent position and his popularity in the largest area of ​​the city. The result of the “skirmishes” was the appointment of the Gaza of Pranemtsovsky, Nikolai Puggin, the privatization of gas, the growth of its debts, the drop in production and salaries.

After retirement, Boris Vidyaev actively participated in the life of the plant. He was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly, and in years - a member of the Public Chamber of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.