Konstantin Babkin is a Russian entrepreneur, politician, blogger and just not indifferent person. Reading his publications in LiveJournal, you understand that the measure of responsibility of this person is quite high: it extends not only to his sphere of activity.
After all, if a person is engaged in politics, then he thinks not only about his factory, collective farm or his field. This means that the whole country is in the sphere of his interests. It is quite acceptable that not only.
Biography
Konstantin Anatolyevich Babkin was born in 1971 in the city of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region. Everything in his family reached certain heights in their professions: his father was a candidate of technical sciences, as well as a developer and researcher of secret weapons for submarines, his brother became a doctor of historical sciences, a researcher of the history of the Russian Church.
Konstantin studied at a regular Miass school, and then at a correspondence physical-technical school at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Miass branch. Miass had an excellent base for playing sports, and Babkin did not miss this opportunity: he was engaged in swimming and speed skating. By high school, he already had youthful ranks in these forms.
Konstantin received his higher education at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, at the Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics. He studied with interest and planned to connect his life with science. He wrote several scientific publications on polymers. However, life turned out so that it was necessary to do other things: in 1992, at a very young age, he became a co-founder of ZAO Production Association Commonwealth. The joint-stock company was engaged in the production of industrial goods and developed quite successfully.
Entrepreneur career
After high school, a young specialist worked in the "Commonwealth", in 2005 he became president of the New Commonwealth Industrial Union. This is a fairly responsible post for the young man, but Konstantin felt the strength in himself for such a post. And he was not mistaken: this company currently includes includes twenty enterprises operating in Moscow, Kazakhstan, the Rostov region, Ukraine and even abroad - in Canada and the USA.The main units in this holding are the famous Rostselmash, which produces agricultural machinery, as well as Empils (paint and varnish production) and Buhler Industries (agricultural machinery and equipment) is a powerful combination with an annual output of approximately US $ 1 billion.
The main assets of the Union are held by three founders and managing partners: Konstantin Anatolyevich Babkin, Dmitry Alexandrovich Udras and Yuri Viktorovich Ryazanov. Partners in the nineties were able to "pull out the declining Empils and Rostselmash plants from the swamp."
In a situation where the entire industry of the country was going through difficult times, Babkin took the initiative to restore Rostselmash and enter a new level of production. Specialists-managers with the direct participation of Konstantin Anatolyevich managed to develop a comprehensive program for the strategic development of the enterprise. Then it was possible to present it in the right places and get big investments for it. This helped to significantly modernize production, as a result of which the range of products manufactured by the plant was expanded.
About this "economic miracle" they wrote even abroad. In particular, The Economist magazine wrote that Rostselmash was experiencing a real renaissance: it established production of its products in thirty-five countries of the world, including Germany.
Since 2004, Babkin became president of the Rosagromash Association, which unites manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Since 2017, this organization is called "Rosspetsmash" and unites manufacturers of specialized machinery and equipment.
Political activity
Almost simultaneously with the fact that Babkin headed the Production Union Commonwealth CJSC, he became a candidate for deputy from the Novgorod region from Free Russia and went to the Duma of the fourth convocation. Then he was a member of the Veche deputy group, as well as a member of the budget, finance and economy committee.
His activity and his life position confirm the expression that in our time the economy has become politics and vice versa. He constantly opposes the economic policy of the government, considering it shortsighted.
In his book Reasonable Industrial Policy, or How to Get Out of the Crisis, which he wrote in 2008, he gives an assessment of the Russian economy and compares it with the actual potential of the country. The book was very popular among readers of different views and positions, and was reprinted several times. In 2012, the book was translated into English.
Due to the issues that Babkin raised in the book and constantly voiced at various forums, an investigation was carried out on the topic of increased imports of agricultural equipment to Russia with available own capacities.
Since 2010, Babkin - Chairman of the Federal Political Council of the Party of the Party and member of the Bureau of the Central Council of the Union of Russian Engineering.
Babkin opposed Russia's entry into the WTO; he believes that the Russian Federation needs a change in monetary, tax and foreign trade policies; criticizes the government for the pricing policy of monopolists - power engineers, Gazprom, etc. It puts forward a large number of initiatives to change the Russian economy as a whole.
