A letter of misfortune

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!

You are the last hope for veterans of the Arkhangelsk trawl fleet.
You advocate for strengthening patriotic education in our country, and we are with all our hearts.
You are worried about the fate of the single -industry towns. You say that you need to work individually for each city and never forget that every dismissal is the fate of people, the situation of Russian families, the situation of children. And our anxiety about the same.
On October 23, the Ministry of Economic Development examined options for privatization of the Arkhangelsk trawl fleet. We were very concerned about what, among others, was also a proposal to sell the ATP shares through the auction. This means there is a probability of a fleet from Arkhangelsk.

But dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! Our tralflot is not just an enterprise, it is the national treasure of the Arkhangelsk Territory and Russia. And to tear it out of Arkhangelsk - how to transplant the heart. The outcome can be fatal. This is the most precious thing we have, our children, grandchildren.

Legally the Arkhangelsk trawl fleet was formed in 1920. But this is not just the date of birth of a particular enterprise. This is the year of the birth of industrial fishing of Russia, and it began in Arkhangelsk. Then there will be Murmansk, the Far East, the Baltic states.

Our fleet was created by forces, the efforts, mind and conscientiousness of the sailorovpomors. They came to the fleet from Pomeranian villages, whose inhabitants were engaged in fishing for more than one century. Hence the dynasty of captains, masters of production and processing, mechanics. For Pomors, fishing has always been a native element. He is in the genes of many generations of fishermen, and this connection cannot be destroyed.

Take statistics on the heroes of socialist labor in the fishing industry of the entire former Soviet Union. All of them are somehow connected with Arkhangelsk. Fishermen whose names are named streets in Murmansk are also our Pomors. In the time of the head of Sevryb, the courts of our tralflot always gave more planned assignments than others. This was called "15 percent of the Archangel captains." Because the best! Because they are a unique Arkhangelsk school. And in any specialty. If you want to become a good abyssor, learn to arm and repair the trawls, then there will be a good sense from you and on the bridge.

You see, Vladimir Vladimirovich, for some officials, what firewood is to sell that the tralflot is the same. And we are scared to imagine how Arkhangelsk, especially the factor, will live without it. It is called that - the fishing settlement. Here everything is tied to the tralflot. Yes, and the area itself for the money of fishermen is built. In every family: a fisherman or a ship repair, a veteran of a fleet or a cadet of a fishing sailor, which is also at a factory. The boys who study in it know: the Arkhangelsk tralflot will take in practice, then to work. But there will be no fleet?

The fishermen - veterans in each factor school have a sponsored class, we meet with Yungas. And the trailflot museum is worth it! Yes, here not only schoolchildren with students - governors with foreign ambassadors come, there is no other in the country!
And all this is not trifles. On traditions, Rybatskaya's conscience is formed.

Over the past twenty years, how many fleets have gone. Where are the Murmansk Murmanrybprom, Rybakkolkhozsoyuz, Promoting? How many trawlers were abandoned with small companies in the ports of Norway, they will squeeze everything out of the ship, but there is no case to the fate of the crew.

The Arkhangelsk fishermen have retained the trailflot: both ships and reputation. Even in the dashing nineties in poaching are not noticeable, because the careful attitude to the breadwinner is also in tradition, it is from great -grandfathers that went to the groomant.

In 2003, in order to save the trailflot from bankruptcy, the fishermen agreed to cut the salary of 40 percent. Waiting for the quota, which was so lacking at that time, someone worked as a loader, who was a driver, and did not leave the fleet. Quotes appeared - everyone returned.

The Arkhangelsk tralflot is the only one for the whole industry who managed to successfully get out of bankruptcy and establish the economy. Here, they say, the enterprise has large debts now. So, after all, debts of debts are different. Our fishermen took a loan to modernize and return to operation the three youngest and most powerful trawler trawlers, which were stolen from the enterprise by international scammers while working in Mauritania. How many trials in different countries were withstanding, returning the state its property, how many fishing money has gone to it ... But now the courts are in the ranks. And the fleet works with profit, it only needs to be supported, and not from the city.

In our time, they said: one fisherman in the sea gives six to seven jobs on the shore. But this is true. The Arkhangelsk tralflot not only flies with work. For two areas of Arkhangelsk, our enterprise is a city -forming. Even during the years of economic shocks, ATP retained the entire coastal infrastructure. On the one hand, the Maimaksan bucket is the shipyard of the fleet, most of our trawlers are served here. On the other hand, the ATP fishing plant, one of the most modern in the region. There will be no fleet - it will not be needed and all this infrastructure. And where to go to people? This means that unemployment, destroyed families, unhappy children and old people, drunkenness and criminal situation. And these are not dozens, but tens of thousands of broken destinies!

But the main thing is the fish port of the Arkhangelsk tralflot. In recent years, with the money of the enterprises, two new refrigerators have been built here, so that even more fish to their native port is taken. And they will remove the fleet from Arkhangelsk - who will feed our north?
Therefore, veterans of the trawl fleet are sure: the privatization of the Arkhangelsk trawl fleet should take place only in the form of a competition when social obligations will be prescribed: preserving the fleet in his native Arkhangelsk, preserving jobs and coastal infrastructure of the enterprise. And our fleet needs a good investor so that not only the trailflot quotas chased, but is also ready to develop it. And our fishermen will master their quotas without other people's help.

We ask you very much, Vladimir Vladimirovich, find out from officials from the Ministry of Economic Development, whether they think about this very social component during the privatization of the tralflot, and if they think that it is.
We really hope for your support.

On behalf of the ATP veteran organization:
Captains: Philip Gulyaev - Hero of Socialist Labor, Vladimir Bobretsov, Alexander Bobrov, Georgy Gurinovich, Ivan Degtyarev, Vladimir Lupachev, Alexey Rashev; Chairman of the Regional Committee of the Fisheries Trade Union Gennady Khviuzov.