The first president of AvtoVAZ has died

In Moscow the day before, on June 3, at the age of 80, the long-term leader, the first president of AvtoVAZ, Vladimir Kadannikov, died. He headed the country's largest car plant from 1988 to 2005 - from USSR General Secretary Gorbachev to Russian President Putin and from Samara to LADA Kalina.

The death of Kadannikov was announced by the head of Togliatti (whose honorary citizen was the ex-president of the concern) Nikolai Renz.

Kadannikov worked all his life in the automotive industry, at the VAZ - from the very beginning of the development of the first Lads. Having headed the plant in the midst of perestroika, at the same time he was engaged in political activities, protecting its interests as a people's deputy of the USSR. In the 1990s, he stood at the origins of the "Yeltsin" party "Our Home is Russia", in 1996 for a short time he became the first deputy chairman of the government.

Under Kadannikov, the plant was corporatized, and in the "Berezovsky era" at AvtoVAZ, Kadannikov was considered one of the main shareholders of the concern's sales company, LogoVAZ. The name of Kadannikov is associated with the first successful joint venture of the GM-AvtoVAZ plant, the board of directors of which he headed.

He left the leadership of the concern Kadannikov only in 2005 with its transfer under the control of Rosoboronexport.