When the staff of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant personally sent the invitation letter to Seryosha's office of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Seryosha was still a little surprised.
At the beginning, Seryosha in the United Kingdom allowed Britain to transfer the key technology of two gas pipelines on the condition of reducing costs, the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant received part of the steam turbine technology transferred by Alstom, and the Krivoy Roglenin Iron and Steel Plant in Ukraine received the pipeline production technology of British Steel.
Both of these technologies are currently unattainable by the domestic industrial power of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet-European gas pipeline project will cross the Caucasus region between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, which is home to the Chechen Republic and is also known as a seismic zone, and some of the no-man's land through which the pipeline passes has even experienced earthquakes with a magnitude of up to nine.
The seismic performance of the pipes is extremely strict.
Therefore, the Soviet-European gas pipeline project can be said to be the pinnacle of pipeline engineering technology.
Seryosha was still very happy about the invitation of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, compared to the Krivoy Roglenin Iron and Steel Plant in Ukraine, which did not have such insight as the leaders of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant.
Seryosha originally wanted to find a reason to decline the other party's invitation, but when he opened the invitation and saw the signature at the bottom, he couldn't help but get a little excited.
Unexpectedly, this invitation was actually signed by Yeltsin himself.
"Thank you to the comrades of the Sverdlovsk region for their warm invitation, please convey my greetings to the comrades of the workers of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, I will attend the ceremony of commissioning the steam turbine production line of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant on time," Seryosha changed his attitude and took the initiative to leave his seat to greet the cadres from the Sverdlovsk region.
He asked Nastya to arrange for them to live in a guest house of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and invited them to spend a few days in Moscow.
After Seryosha had arranged his schedule, he arranged for them to fly back to the city of Sverdlovsk.
In the days before departure, Seryosha finally figured out Yeltsin's current situation, Seryosha certainly did not expect that Yeltsin had taken a fancy to his workers' new city and invited him, Seryosha simply thought that this was just a good intention of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant.
But Seryosha had the intention of deliberately befriending Yeltsin.
Even if Seryosha is not familiar with history, he knows who is in charge of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Seryosha asked Nastya to help him adjust his future schedule and include the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant in the scope of his inspection.
Seryosha did not intend to go home just by omitting a scene at the commissioning ceremony, he wanted to stay in Sverdlovsk for a while, and it would be better to win Yeltsin into his political friend.
Seryosha never imagined that Yeltsin was actually more eager than him to establish a close relationship with Seryosha.
In this way, Seryosha came to the city of Sverdlovsk with a different mind.
The city of Sverdlovsk was founded in 1723 and was named after Empress Catherine I, but later the Soviet government changed it to Sverdlovsk in honor of the warrior Sverdlovsk.
Located east of the Ural Mountains, it was an important transport hub connecting Siberia and Moscow, as well as an important industrial, trade, scientific and cultural center of the Soviet Union.
As a large state-owned machinery manufacturing enterprise, the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant is not only responsible for the research and development and manufacturing of many large-scale machinery projects in the Soviet Union, but also an important military industrial enterprise.
As soon as Seryosha got off the plane, he met Secretary Yeltsin, who had come to greet him, and after shaking hands, the two returned to the state government's guest house in the same car.
On the way, Yeltsin picked up Seryosha and told Seryosha about some of his work in the city of Sverdlovsk over the years.
In particular, some of the large-scale projects he led when he was in the construction department, both of them had participated in municipal construction, and they had a common topic, so the two of them chatted very well along the way.
He even shared some experiences and experiences in municipal construction, and Seryosha's experience in project financing was very inspiring to Yeltsin, and Yeltsin's experience in construction management also benefited Seryosha a lot.
When it came time to get off the bus, Yeltsin even directly called Seryosha Brother Seryosha instead of Comrade Ulyanov.
And Seryosha called Yeltsin the big brother Boris.
There was an element of deliberate friendship, Seryosha put his posture very low, and Yeltsin also felt that the other party did not put on a set of hated Moscow cadres.
"Brother Seryosha, tomorrow is the weekend.
Although we have only just met, I hit it off with you, and the more we talk, the more speculative we become.
I don't know how much you drink, brother, do you have time to enjoy the light and come to our suburban home to be a guest, our villa in the suburbs is by the river, by the way, do you like fishing, we can go boating and fishing together," Yeltsin warmly invited.
"Brother Boris, I naturally can't ask for it, and today I have listened to some of your suggestions on the opening of municipal administrations, and I am simply deeply educated.
If only I had a chance to hear your opinion sooner," Seryosha complimented.
"This is all about some experience, it can be regarded as a summary of my work as a person who has come over, but although I have now left the construction industry to take a leadership position, I still dare not abandon my profession, and occasionally I will look through some of the past materials to review," Yeltsin inadvertently revealed that he had experience in municipal development, hoping to attract Seryosha's attention.
However, Seryosha apparently did not understand what Boris meant.
After the two parted ways at the hotel, Yeltsin rushed home in a special car.
In the car, Yeltsin used the car phone to contact his wife, Yeltsina.
He was instructed to prepare the dishes for the reception early tomorrow morning, and that tomorrow a distinguished guest from Moscow would arrive.
Yeltsin was very prestigious at home, and his wife did not dare to ask more and quickly agreed.
After hanging up, Yeltsina found a pen and paper to list some of the things she would buy tomorrow.
Tomorrow, of course, the family's nanny will help her with the purchase, but the dishes will only be sincere if Yeltsina makes them herself.
Yeltsin sat in the car and reviewed all his conversations with Seryosha over and over again.
Through today's conversation, Yeltsin felt that at least one thing was good, that is, the other party seemed to be very close to him.
Seryosha is a recent celebrity around Gorbachev, and Yeltsin does not intend to use him only as a tool to obtain a new workers' city, and such a capable and young cadre will definitely become a big help for himself in Moscow in the future. t1706231537: