Отчет о командировке Верховых В.В. с 5 июня по 19 июня в Самарскую область.
Транспорт:

• Санкт-Петербург – Москва, железной дорогой (поездом);
• Москва – Самара, автотранспортом (легковой автомобиль);
• Самара – Санкт-Петербург, авиационным транспортом (рейсовым самолетом).

• По Самарской области по маршруту: Богатырь, Сызрань, Тольятти, Самара продвижение осуществлялось легковым автомобильным транспортом (прокат).

Результаты командировки (сухой остаток):

В настоящее время приступаю к переводу для Вас на английский небольшой части сосланного обширного материала.

P.S. Самой большой неожиданностью для меня было узнать от отца, что он в годы Великой отечественной войны помогал своей матери выращивать на 40 сотках культуры табака и в деталях помнит основную технологию агротехники его возделывания, подготовки сырья и реализации.

С уважением,
В.В. Верховых.

Табак
1. October,16
14.40 – arrival at Sheremetievo-2 Airport. Kristina – Vladimir’s subordinate - was waiting for me at customs control.
18.56 – departure to Samara.
2. October,17
12.05 – arrival at Samara. Vladimir was waiting for us at the railway station.
Vladimir prepared a visit to biological faculty of Samara State University. Meeting with Prokhorova Natalya – the main ecologyst of the University.
Прохорова Наталья Владимировна/Natalya V. Prokhorova
+8-846-34-54-43
ecology@ssu.samara.ru
Самарский госуниверситет/Samara State University
On the question about the possibility of tobacco growing in Samara area Natalya answered that she couldn’t be totally sure in it because of often spring frosts that can appear even on flood-lands near
Zhigulevskoye sea and Kuibyshevsky reservoir. She suggested the higher possibility of success in more southern region, perhaps in Volgograd or Saratov area that border upon Samara area. The average temperatures of May and September are higher there.
Visit to Samara Meteorological Station.
Приволжское метеоагентство. Автономная некоммерческая организация.
Генеральный директор – Дунаева Любовь Николаевна
443125 ул. Ново-Садовая, 325, г. Самара, Россия. (для телеграфа)
Tel.: +8-846-2-450696
Fax.: +8-846-2-529896
Privolzhskoye Meteorological Agency.
General director – Lyubov N. Dunaeva.
443125, Novo-Sadovaya str., 325, Samara, Russia. (for telegraph)
The information about the exact temperatures in May and September in 1991-2001 according to this agency costs $234.

Visit to Samara National Library. There are agricultural recommendations on growing makhorka (oriental tobacco?) edited before 1917 and during World War II (1941,1943). The time of sowing is May 8-10.
Fixing the time of meeting with tobacco factory with manager on tobacco supply Lena A. Belyak.
Samara is an educational and industrial centre; military industry is especially well developed.

3. October,18
Meeting with JSC Tobacco Factory “Samarskaya”.
The general director Gennady Efremov after getting general information about our project approved it in whole. Before leaving Mr Efremov asked manager on tobacco supply Lena A. Belyak, the chief tobacco master Svetlana Pavlova and commercial director Yevgeny I. Abalymov to discuss with me and with Vladimir the details of the project. The factory is interested in project a lot because they see in it the opportunities of increasing their influence on tobacco market. The factory is now in the process of restructuring and it is looking for the possibilities of getting cheaper tobacco of higher quality. They want to create new trademarks. Also the factory wants to substitute the Moldavian tobacco sorts and other sorts they use for the new ones. Few years ago they regarded the opportunity of producing tobacco leaves themselves, they even experimented with planting few examples of Moldavian tobacco. The factory got positive results but they were not satisfied with the quality of tobacco leaves.
The factory manufactures 50% of non-filter cigarettes and 50% of cigarettes with filter, so they need both high quality tobacco and cheaper one. For that reason they want to know of which category is our variety that we sent from Greece (NC 71).
They want to test as many varieties of tobaccos as it is possible and they want to look carefully after their growing in Samara area.
The factory offered to buy next year for the first year trials 10 tons of Virginia and 1 ton of Burley.
They are ready to double the international price - $2/kilo for the first year and they are ready to pay next season $4/kilo because they want to support this experiment very much. Also they are thinking over installing of curing barns on the territory of their factory.
The factory thinks that it would be more convenient for them not to work with farmers directly but via the representative of farmer’s interests.
The factory needs:
1. the data of chemical analyses of varieties of Virginia and Burley;
2. samples of Burley (3-4 leaves);
3. prospects about curing barns and their prices; more information about the technology of processing;
4. samples of seeds of 10 varieties of Burley and 10 varieties of Virginia.

We invited the representatives of tobacco factory to the exhibition in November.
During business lunch with Yevgeny and Lena they promised that they would do everything depending on them to come.

JSC “Tobacco Factory “ Samarskaya”
140 Avrory str., Samara, 443045, RUSSIA
General director - Gennady L.Efremov
Tel.: +8-8462-66-36-25
Fax.:+8-8462-38-09-65
E-mail: efremov@tfs.ru

Manager on tobacco supply – Lena A. Belyak
Tel.: +8-8462-165-914
Fax.:+8-8462-380-965
E-mail: lena@tfs.ru

Commercial director – Yevgeny I. Abalymov
Tel.: +8-8462-663-625
+8-8462-165-914
+8-8462-000-218
Fax.:+8-8462-380-965

The trip from Samara to Shigonsky area. The most intresting places from the point of tobacco-growing are lands around Tolyatti (Тольятти) near Kuibyshevsky reservoir and Vyselki (Выселки) in Shigonsky area.
They cultivate there corn and sunflower. Black organic soils and good warehouse in Vyselky are perfect for drying tobacco leaves.
Night in the hotel in “Volzhsky Utes”.

October,19
The day was organised by Yuri Afanasjev and Vyatcheslav Sysuev. Yuri had prepared the plan on this day in English. Yuri is an official in Shigony administration, he had graduated the Forest Institute.Now he works also in nursery forest (arboretum) near Volzhsky Utes. Also he is getting the second higher education in management. He is really tactful and gently person. Vyatcheslav is the general director of Bank of Samara .
He has great experience in financial operations and understands the economical situation in Russia perfectly. Besides, he is rather good psychologyst.

Afanasjev Yuri
2, Myra st., Shigony, Administration, Samara area, 446720, Russia/
ул. Мира д.2, с. Шигоны, администрация, 446720, Россия.
Tel.: +8-846-48-2-19-43

Sysuev Vyatcheslav
1, Bolnitchny per., ap.2, Shigony, Samara area, 446720, Russia/
Больничный пер., д.1, кв.2, с. Шигоны, Самарская обл., 446720, Россия.

I.Meeting with the director of agricultural enterprise “Usolskoje” Alexander Dmitriev. This enterprise belongs to the sanatorium “Volzhsky Utes”. Alexander is a young specialist and runs his enterprise very professionally. From 1996 to1998– after graduating the Agricultural Academy in Samara -he was the main agronomist of the sanatorium, 3 years ago he became a director. He reacts very well to cooperation, he us interested very much in any new ideas. He works with 2 very experienced agronomists. One of them offered to use in greenhouses the technology of planting vegetables on the straw packs.
Alexander is responsible for 5 greenhouses, 800 sq.m. each and for 29 hectares of fields . They plant spices (lavander etc), cucumbers (10 tons from greenhouse during the season) and tomatoes in greenhouses. They start sowing tomatoes at the end of January and transplant seedlings into the greenhouses at the end of February. In summer they transplant seedlings outside in June.
Besides stationary greenhouses made from glass and steel with hot water heating they have summer greenhouses made from plastic with radiators. They have also rather good warehouse for their production.
The fields are next to the river, the temperatures are good. They plant there potato, carrot, dill, cabbage, melons and gourds.
The enterprise has a lot of machinery: chemical sprayers in good condition, tractors, fertiliser distributes.

Dmitriev Alexander - director of Agricultural enterprise “Usolskoje”
v. Volzhsky Utes, Shigonsky raion, Samara area,446740, Russia/
ПСХ «Усольское», 446740, пос. Волжский Утес, Шигонский район, Самарская обл., Россия.
Tel.: +8-846-30-511-26
Fax.: +8-846-30-513-49

II. Meeting with farmers.
During Soviet period the lands near the sanatorium – 8500 hectares – belonged to one kolkhoz (collective farm). After perestroika they were divided among the farmers. We met the richest and the strongest of them.
They are:

Shadrin Vladimir
Private collective farm “Shok”
4, Spetsialistov, ap. 3, v. Usolje, Shigonsky raion, Samara area, 446740, Russia/
КФХ “Шок”
ул. Специалистов, д.4, кв.3, с. Усолье, Шигонский р-н, Самарская обл., 446740, Россия.
Tel.: +8-846-248-28-368
Vladimir is a real farmer, he used to work with land. Now he owns 1500 hectares and plants there buckwheat.

Romashov Vladimir
“Agrofirm Polesje Ltd.”
Tel.: +8-846-248-28-181

Also at this meeting presented the general director of company group “VAZ Inter Service Supply ” Nesterov Andrei. He is the head of the main industrial-supply company group of the region. This company group owns a motor-car factory “VAZ” in Tolyatti and wants to spread its influence on the agricultural sector. Andrei was greatly interested in the project. He offered to buy the barn. He needs the further information about barns, machinery and literature on tobacco-growing in English. He said that it wouldn’t be a problem for his company to translate it into Russian. Vyatcheslav and Yuri don’t trust him because they think that he has some connectins with criminals.
Other farmers need these books and the information about exhibition also.

Nesterov Andrei
General director of the company group “VAZ Inter Service Supply”
51, Borkovskaya str., Tolyatti, Samara area, 445931, Russia/
ул. Борковская, д.51, г. Тольятти, Самарская обл., 445931, Россия.
Tel./fax.: +8-8482-420-183
E-mail: vis-s@infopac.ru

III. We met also the director of one of the biggest private agricultural companies of Samara area – Ivanov Sergey.