A reminder of the Great Patriotic War: projects implemented in Kuban often involve mine clearance in the area

A reminder of the Great Patriotic War: projects implemented in Kuban often involve mine clearance in the area

November 8, 2018 Moscow — PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica (hereinafter, the Company), a leading company in the Russian engineering market, had to deal with the effects of military operations that took place during World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) in Krasnodar Krai.

On November 5, artillery shells from Great Patriotic War were detected during the excavations (digging the trenches for laying cable lines) near Krymsk and the Adagum River (Krymsky district in Krasnodar Krai). 

The shells were removed, and are being disposed of by the Novorossiysk garrison unit 42091.

According to the military recruitment service of Krymsky district in Krasnodar Krai, about 1,500 different types of explosive items are detected in this district each year. During Great Patriotic War, fascist troops established the so-called Kuban bridgehead (“Blue line” or Kuban-Brückenkopf) here — the system of defense lines of Hitler's troops on the Taman Peninsula. The artillery shells were detected near the second line of defense as part of this defense system. 

Since November 2018, Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica has been carrying out work in Krasnodar Krai. This involves engineering and construction work for phase 3 of a project to install a water conduit from pumping station 3 to the PK120 Troitsky collective water supply system. In accordance with the contract concluded with the customer — the Krasnodar Krai administration — the Company provides electric power supply, automation and electrochemical protection for the facility, undertaking the following tasks:

• delivery of materials and equipment, assembly,

• earthworks with preparation of ground work for power control and automation cabinets (control rooms),

• digging the 13 kilometer long trenches to the wells with motor operating valves (MOVs),

• merging the system and setting up the controls at the operator's workplace at the main pumping station,

• and developing software for control over all facilities being installed.

The need to carry out bomb disposal has moderately affected the work schedule for this project.

REFERENCE:

This year marked 75 years since the Kuban bridgehead (“Blue line” or Kuban-Brückenkopf) was breached — the toughest German defensive line on the Taman Peninsula in WWII — and Kuban was freed from fascist invaders.

There were only three lines of defense like this during World War II: the Maginot Line in France, the Mannerheim Line in Finland, and the Kuban bridgehead in Kuban.

Germans began building the Kuban bridgehead in February of 1943, and in four months managed to create a powerful defensive line in the lower reaches of the Kuban River, just before Soviet troops started marching out. The Kuban bridgehead was 6 kilometers deep. The defensive line began at the Azov reed beds near Verbanaya Kosa in the Sea of Azov, passing through the estuaries, down the Kurka River and swamplands, along the Adagum River to Kievskaya station, and ended at the Black Sea. The enemy prepared 10 defensive positions at a distance ranging between 5 and 25 kilometers from each other, all the way from Kuban and the Taman Peninsula to Kerch Strait.

The Red Army managed to break through this defense system by the start of October 1943.

Source: https://topwar.ru/36763-shturm-goluboy-linii.html

About the Group of Companies PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica

PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica (MOEX: EELT) provides comprehensive services in the sphere of creating energy and electric power supply systems, electric lighting systems, and low current systems at all types of facilities, as well as industrial electric heating systems.

The Company has been working in the electrical engineering market since 2004, and at present has its own engineering and production facilities. The Company is one of the leading distributors of electrical equipment in Russia, offering customers a wide range of products made both in Russia and abroad. Thanks to a well-organized and efficient logistics system, the Company is able to supply products (including oversize loads) all over Russia, including to hard-to-reach areas of the North, as well as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The Company established its own production of transformer substations, electric switchboard equipment of any complexity (up to 6300A), electric lighting systems and electric heating systems.

The Company implements projects in the Oil&Gas sector, electric power sector, nuclear industry, metal industry, mining industry, and manufacturing industry and at transport infrastructure facilities. Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica's customers include companies such as Rosneft, Gazprom, NOVATEK, LUKOIL, and Nizhnekamskneftekhim. The Company's projects include Power of Siberia, Yamal LNG, Smolensk NPP, Data Center of Sberbank of Russia, and the Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, and Pulkovo airports, etc.

Since 2018, the Group has been producing highly efficient modular process equipment for clients in Oil&Gas and petrochemical markets at the site of its subsidiary ROG-Engineering, a research and production company in Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia).

Key financial indicators of PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica (IFRS):

The number of employees is about 400 (as of June 30, 2018). Since September 2017, common shares of PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica are traded on the Moscow Exchange with trading code EELT.

In June 2018, the Company was named "Leader of Import Substitution" at the "Leader of Competitive Sales" annual national awards, in which 450 domestic suppliers from various industries took part.

Contacts:

PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica

Tel .: +7 (495) 640-93-48

Mailing address: Building 3, 1 Lyotchika Babushkina St., Moscow, 129344

For more information, please contact:

Stanislav Martyushev

Director for Corporate Communications and Investor Relations

PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnica

Tel. +7 (495) 640-93-48, ext. 164       

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