Red Director, hostage bandits, partner of Berezovsky: History of the head of AvtoVAZ Vladimir Kadannikov
On June 3, in Moscow, in the 80th year of his life, the long-term general director of AvtoVAZ Vladimir Kadannikov died . He headed the country's largest car factory under Gorbachev, and retired already at the second period of Putin - and over 17 years at the head of AvtoVAZ was able to build relations with the bandits besieging the plant, helping Boris Berezovsky and, using the oligarch, gain control over the plant, which the state had to take in 2005 under the cover of riot police.