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The first article the published was published on 30 May 2014 and you can view the original here. It concerns the reasons for Yunitskiy to develop his project in Lithuania. This was before the Siauliai scandal came to a head and his project was closed down for security reasons. Yunitskiy skipped the country never to return.
On the 15 May 2015 Anna Ermachenok published an article attempting to explain the controversial funding of the testing facility from small investors they had recently started building near Marjina Horka. You can read the original here: [60]. This article describes the office complex centralized in Minsk. They also spoke to Professor Zylyov of the MIIT who he and his colleagues analysed in 2006. They concluded in a research paper that it would be unusually expensive and that high speeds would be unreachable. Other scientists suggest it would be possible in theory.
On 28 June 2017 Ermachenok published another article on the EcoTechnoPark. You can view the original here: [61]. Although the EcoTechoPark is discussed, the problematic issue of investors is brought up and Yunitskiy explains why it was a mistake to attempt to get funding from the government although he does his best to avoid talking about investment: he can’t be blamed if investors lose money. It is also mentioned that the Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, Kalinin, visited the facility and called it “questionable and unnecessary”. Yunitskiy brushes off any claims that his company consist of crooks, swindlers and scammers.
On 7 September 2017 they published an article which includes interviews of engineering staff who have a history in formula-1 racing and go-karts. You could get the impression that this article presents a balanced opinion about genuine engineers who work for the company until you discover that it was written Michael Kirichenko who actually works for the SkyWay company as “Chief of News Services”. He has been criticized in the past for creating exaggerated and unsupported information about SkyWay technology on the internet. You can view the original here: https://42.tut.by/559095. His conclusions? People with a history in sport must be truly great people who work well together as part of an incredible engineering team.
The next article was published on 5 August 2018 and was written by Dmitry Smirnov. You can view the original here: https://42.tut.by/603396. This article is interesting because it relates his experiences at the EcoTechnoFest which had taken place (and which takes place yearly) which opens the park to the public and has devoted SkyWay fans from around the world descending on the park to try out the technology. Although TUT.BY were refused an invitation, the journalist went anyway and commented on the international audience of entirely unqualified fans who seemed devoted to Yunitskiy’s untested experiment which they had actually helped bring into existence (as no government would ever pay a cent to fund a dangerous, untested technology). Highlights of his day included a visit to the SkyWay museum whose ceiling is adorned with the names of investors (the can also plant a tree with their name in the orchard). It should be mentioned here at this event, Yunitsky mentioned the release of a cryptocurrency at this event which will help the growth of SkyWay’s assets.
The next article published on 20 September 2018 concerns the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin and is viewable here: [62].
On 16 November 2018 are article was published concerning an employee of SkyWay who had resigned because of dissatisfaction with the company, telling them as much in his resignation letter. Later the company accused him of leaking information to the press and confiscated his company shares. You can view the original here: [63].
The most recent article published 2 May 2019 concerns the proposed project in Dubai which had been supposedly approved by the Sheikh Mohammed in his tweet. You can view the original here: [64]
Белорус предложил Литве транспортную революцию (30 May 2014) Belarusian offered Lithuania a transport revolution
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Белорус предложил Литве транспортную революцию – из Вильнюса в Каунас за 15 минут
Belarusian offered Lithuania a transport revolution - from Vilnius to Kaunas in 15 minutes
(30 May 2014)
A trip from Vilnius to Kaunas in a few years can take 15 minutes. So says the Belarusian scientist Anatoly Yunitsky, who invented the string transport.
A train that looks like a plane without wings should move along a very strong string stretched in the air.
[Computer-generated image of sleek Sky-Way vehicles]
With such a project, Yunitsky, who established Rail Skyway Systems Ltd in Lithuania, is embracing the thresholds of local governments and state institutions. He wants to create a technology park in Lithuania where he plans to carry out final tests and certify his invention.
"We offer a completely new transport, like the Wright brothers, the pioneers of aviation, Stephenson, who designed the first railway, or Ford, who assembled the first car. Our product will create a new market," said the scientist.
He said that even in his student years he understood that the existing transport is not optimal, because of him people often die, it is not environmentally friendly and harms nature. And for over 30 years he has been perfecting his idea. According to the source, the string transport does not harm nature, it is economical.
[computer-generated image of SkyWay vehicles moving above a traffic jam]
The scientist believes that the string road can be equipped at least at a height of 5 meters, but, depending on the needs, it can be built even higher. He argues that he has been researching for a long time how to build a flyover as the cheapest, since it is very expensive. It is estimated that a kilometer of a standard railway overpass costs about $ 100 million. Therefore, the scientist invented a particularly durable road - a steel string that can withstand heavy loads. This road is much cheaper than usual, as it needs 10 times less material. According to the projects prepared by the scientists, the designed train will fly over the ground along the string.
"This transport can be used in the city instead of a tram or bus. Stops can be equipped on the roof of a multistory building, and stretch a string road between them," said the scientist.
For such a vehicle, designed for 40 people, you need very little energy - 5 kW • h. Approximately as for a moped. The scientist claims that such a vehicle is 20 times cheaper than the subway. This technology for the transport of goods are interested in some countries in Africa, America, Europe, Australia.
Why chose Lithuania?
The company wants to create a technology park in Lithuania, where it will conduct tests for about three years in order to offer a patented new type of transport to the market. According to the scientist, he wants to rent for laboratories about 10 hectares, and for test roads a section of about 30 km long and 100 m wide is needed.
[photo of a SkyWay vehicle towering above an almost empty highway near a futuristic station]
If you manage to buy or rent a plot, three types of string transport will be improved in Lithuania: cargo, the speed of which will be about 100 km / h, passenger transport, which will carry passengers in the city at a speed of 150 km / h, and the fast passenger, with a speed about 500 km / h, which can carry about 200,000 passengers per day.
When asked why he chose Lithuania for this project, the source said: “Russia and Belarus are unattractive because of the investment environment, and Lithuania protects the interests of investors. But if we decided to settle in Germany, we would have a strong competitor there, Siemens , in France, Japan has its own fast trains. Why do they need us? I am Belarusian myself, so Lithuania seems to me to be an ideal place. "
According to the scientist, the enterprise does not ask for money, but intends to invest $ 300 million in Lithuania. At the beginning of the project it is planned to employ up to 500 people. Workers are looking for now.
Now Unitsky is meeting with heads of various local governments, is preparing a project for the Ministry of Transport and Communications. According to him, if in a few months it is not possible to find a suitable site, the company will look for another country.
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На "дорогу будущего" под Марьиной Горкой (15 September 2015) On the “road of the future” near Marjina Horka
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Со скоростью 500 км/ч. На "дорогу будущего" под Марьиной Горкой изобретатели ищут 300 млн долларов: https://42.tut.by/464466
With a speed of 500 km / h. Inventors are looking for $ 300 million for the “road of the future” near Marjina Horka
by Ann Ermachenok (15 September 2015)
This summer, under the Marina Gorka, the construction of a test facility for “string transport” began - a long-standing and tangled innovative project of the Belarusian engineer Anatoly Yunitsky. TUT.BY spent one day in the office of the company "String Technologies", trying to understand when we can ride on the transport of a new generation and why the project has such a controversial reputation.
1300 kilometers in three hours
The office of CJSC String Technologies occupies several floors in one of Minsk business centers. We are invited on the day when guests from Australia are scheduled to arrive - the project interested Rod Hook, the former head of the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure of South Australia, with his business partner Maree Wauchape.
[photo of Rod Hook and Anatoly Yunitskiy]
Australians have a problem with long-distance transport - railways are outdated, and it’s inconvenient to travel by airplanes inside the continent. Therefore, they are looking for innovative projects that would help change the system.
Anatoly Yunitsky is the head and general designer of String Technologies, as well as the author of string transport. He gave the Australian a tour of the offices and a model workshop, and at the same time told about the project.
“Here we have 15 design offices,” says Yunitskiy, walking down the corridor. The engineer says that a year ago he was the only employee of the company. Now, about 120 people work in the Minsk office of String Technologies. About a hundred of them are engineers and designers.
First of all, our small excursion group is led to the designers and shows the design projects of the devices that the company is working on.
[photo of Rod Hook and Yuitskiy in the Minsk offices]
Anatoly Yunitsky has solutions for several types of transport: high-speed intercity, urban and freight.
All three types are transport modules on steel wheels, which must move along rails stretched between the supports. The distance between the main (anchor) supports can be much larger than that of ordinary bridges - from 1 to 5 kilometers. Between intermediate supports - 40 - 60 meters and more. The transport itself is going to be raised to a height of several meters above the ground.
The speed of the engineer promises much higher than in modern trains - up to 500 km / h outside the city and up to 150 km / h - within it.
[photo of computer-generated image]
“This is the design of the city station, where both urban and high-speed string transport can stop,” shows Yunitskiy. - You can arrive at the station in Adelaide (city in Australia. - Note TUT.BY) by public transport, transfer to a high-speed unibus (passenger module. - Approx. TUT.BY) and in three hours get to Sydney - drive over 1300 kilometers.
The engineer is confident that such transport will be more economical and convenient. Know-how - and in the way of building the tracks, and in the engine, and in the unmanned control system. Professor does not disclose all technical details in order to protect the design from being copied.
On many pictures, the rails and stations are already inscribed in the landscapes of cities - for example, there are renders for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Abu Dhabi. There is also a project for the site under Marjina Horka.
"The machine vision unit will be able to decide on braking itself"
Further Yunitskiy leads guests to the offices where engineers work.
Photographing in this room is impossible. More precisely, it is possible, but so that the monitors do not fall into the frame. Scientists in general are extremely serious about privacy - engineers have no Internet on computers, and there is no Wi-Fi in rooms to prevent leaks.
[5 photos of the staff of SkyWay at work in offices and outside the building]
Anatoly Eduardovich offers to look at the monitors, what experts are working on. One in a special program shows how much load the wheels of the transport module will experience when turning. The other demonstrates a detailed three-dimensional model “motor-wheels” - the engines plan to place them inside each wheel.
- So we model everything - suspension, wheel, rail, overpass, control system. Look, all this is on paper too, - Yunitsky draws our attention to a thick stack of drawings.
In another room, they are engaged in a binocular machine vision system, which will help to manage unibuses.
- The system detects the station, detects the previous object and obstacles that occur on its way, - explains one of the workers.
It is assumed that there will be no drivers in unibuses - the dispatcher from the control center should set the direction. At the same time, according to Unitsky, each unibus will have its own intellect. For example, if even a small object suddenly appears on the rails, the rolling stock will detect it automatically and stop. And the existing warning systems in trains can skip a log on the tracks.
“The system will notice not only the log, it can ‘see a matchbox’,” says Anatoly Eduardovich. - And evaluate whether it is a danger or not. If it decides that the object is dangerous, it will slow down.
The monitor shows a three-dimensional model of the device for decision-making. On another computer, the intellect is tested using a simulator that simulates various obstacles to movement.
Nearby in the room there is a two-meter model of the tail of the unibus - it is “trained” by the artificial vision system, which should be able to recognize other vehicles.
- In extreme cases, the engine vision unit may decide to brake on itself. It doesn't matter what the dispatcher says and what the vehicle “thinks”. But if the distance between him and the obstacle is rapidly reduced, then the machine vision unit itself slows down and gives the necessary commands for the brakes.
Further Yunitsky leads us to the workshops. You can not shoot here at all, "not to give a hint to competitors." Here the engineer shows the system of intellectual vision in action. A small model of a unibus, fixed on thin rails, first determines the location of the “stop” itself, and then quickly approaches it.
In the other part of the workshop there are prototypes of passenger “modules” of the future transport system - four-seater and double. These models are needed to test the ergonomics of the interior. “These blocks can be made into a train that will hold up to a hundred people,” says Anatoly Eduardovich, sitting in the double compartment. - You can also buy one for yourself, personal. With mass production, it will cost no more than ten thousand dollars. Inside the passenger can work on a computer, read newspapers, and you can equip a bed.
"Presidents, sheikhs, oligarchs will watch, ride and order"
Yunitsky plans to launch the first working sample of his inventions in a year at a testing ground in the Pukhovichsky district not far from Marjina Horka. This object is called SkyWay EcoTechnoPark. The company wants to build on the territory of the "park" three transport lines - freight, city and high-speed. Also in the plans - a line of rolling stock, stations for passengers and loading / unloading. This will allow to test the new technology in practice and to certify the development.
[various futuruistic looking computer-generated iamges of the planned EcoTechnoPark facility]
For the construction, "String Technologies" have already received 35 hectares of land in the Pukhovichsky district and all the necessary permits. Now the ground is being prepared for the first anchor support and the station - they are digging a pit and pouring concrete.
[Various photos of Yunitskiy and workers on-site at EcoTechnoPark doing construction]
- Do you know Silicon Valley in the USA? - Anatoly Eduardovich finds an analogy. - It is needed not only to produce a demonstration of high-tech innovations. Here we will continue to improve technology in a closed area. To get ahead of everyone, we need test sites, we need to constantly improve them. And then it will be a shop where the presidents of countries, ministers, sheikhs, oligarchs will watch, ride and order turnkey transport solutions.
“I am looking for serious investors and networkers”
The cost of the construction project EcoTechnoPark to demonstrate all three areas of transport - $ 300 million. This amount will include the current work of the team and the construction of SkyWay EcoTechnoPark. In the meantime, investment is not enough.
“We work from the wheels and, frankly, it’s difficult,” explains the engineer. - Attract investments and immediately invest them in construction.
Anatoly Eduardovich does not plan to raise state money for EcoTechnoPark.
- We don’t need the help of the state, we ourselves want to help him - to give a program that will raise the economy of Belarus many times. We will create tens of thousands of jobs, we will use billions of taxes with the help of investments. The main thing is not to interfere.
Now "String Technologies" is funded by investments of the founder - a foreign company Global Transport Investments. The paid-up share capital of the Belarusian company, according to its data, is more than 5 billion Belarusian rubles.
- CJSC "String Technologies" has created more than 120 highly paid jobs and is a serious taxpayer, - the company says. - Tax deductions amount to more than 2 billion Belarusian rubles a month.
Investors are invited to become shareholders of the parent company of the project by purchasing a stake (investment in private equity) and earn in the future by increasing the growth of the company's value.
[photos of share certificate of Euroasian Rail Skyway Systems Ltd.]
The purchase of shares is actively advertised on the many sites of the group of companies and in its communities on social networks.
[photo of screenshot of SkyWay investment advertisements]
TEXT: screenshots of entries in the Skyway "VKontakte" communities
[SkyWay YouTube film of Selena Katoxina, a SkyWay devotee]
Belarusians, on the other hand, have the opportunity to buy specific objects in SkyWay EcoTechnoPark under contract agreements. In exchange, the names of investors will appear on these objects. Also, customers are issued certificates for a paid object, and the founder, GTI, is a share in the SkyWay group of companies.
Anatoly Eduardovich considers this method of project financing to be more efficient, since the investments go directly to the settlement account of the Belarusian company, and not to foreign accounts.
- We will have thousands of patents. More than 50 patents were received for the technology, but these are umbrella patents - these are not those patents that protect specific technologies. And now we will specifically defend the equipment we are doing - these are thousands of patents and millions of dollars just for patenting. This is a long procedure. I have about a dozen higher educations, one of them is patent law and invention - I am a professional in this matter and I know how to protect copyrights and intellectual property.
"We have a huge army of envious"
Previously, the engineer had already tried to launch his projects in other countries - in Russia and Lithuania. However, the success of his initiative was not crowned. For example, the Lithuanian project launched in 2014 was never implemented.
In 2014, the Control Service of the Central Bank of Lithuania launched an inspection of the Lithuanian project of Yunitskiy. No signs of a financial pyramid were found in his business. However, in 2015 it became known that he was suspected in connection with fraud, illegal economic, commercial, financial activities and the legalization of criminally acquired funds. Now the Lithuanian business project is closed.
“There is a long, tangled story there, I myself do not fully understand,” says Yunitskiy. - I think this is behind competitors. Most likely, it is Siemens. We crossed the road to their project at 20 billion euros. With the hands of the president and the prime minister of the country, they dealt with a competitor.
In Russia, the engineer had already built a first-generation cargo string test system test bench and conducted tests, but the project was also not completed.
[various photos of the ZiL truck on the Ozyory test site]
Later, the stand was destroyed by detractors. In Belarus, according to Anatoly Eduardovich, he feels much more secure.
- We have a huge army of envious, direct competitors, there are those whom we hinder. We deliberately do not make noise - there is an expression "money loves silence." Innovation and know-how love silence even more.
Tells the professor about his other ideas. For example, install solar panels directly on the rail supports or build a route for bicycle-driven unibuses that can accelerate to 120 km / h. It proposes to protect the pillars on the ground with a high-strength wire that will stop unwanted guests by the electromagnetic field, and build island skyscrapers on the piles in the sea.
[various computer-generated images of SkyWay projects, including one among the kangaroos]
In each idea, he puts care about the environment.
“If our civilization continues to develop as it is going now, then after 3-4 generations, the point of no return will come, and it will inevitably perish,” says the engineer. - Earth industry will kill her, and the reality will be what is shown in the disaster films. I have a way of how to avoid this - it is necessary to bring the industry into space. Rockets will not provide it. I have engineering solutions for how to do this. But this is the future. Now I am working on SkyWay heavenly roads as an offshoot from this space project.
Scientists about the project: "Theory does not always coincide with practice"
We asked Vladimir Borisovich Zylyov, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of Construction Mechanics at Moscow State University of Communications (MIIT), about whether the new technology has a perspective. He and his colleagues in 2006 conducted a mathematical modeling of the system and published a research paper with an expert opinion on two types of string transport.
“We have concluded that this is impossible,” said Vladimir Borisovich in comment 42.TUT.BY. - What is being done there is unusually expensive, high speeds are impossible there.
The scientist believes that the new transport system can work only at low speeds.
- 500 kilometers per hour? It turned out that at a speed of almost 80 km / h the trailer flies up and bounces off these rails in the place where the support stands. Of course, at some speed it can move - say, 10 km / h. But then the question arises - how much is a kilometer of this railway? How should passengers go up there, how many people should be servicing the station?
According to the professor, at the stated speeds, the train will not be able to move smoothly, and the “string” at high loads can break and destroy a section of the road.
- It is difficult to say why people believe in it. They are not experts and trust those who started it. They think, since this is being built, since this is a real project, it means that it will really work.
True, not all experts think so.
“Theoretically, this is realizable,” says Igor Malygin, Dr. Sc. (Engineering), director of the Institute for Transport Problems named after N.S. Solomenko of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - Yunitsky proved it in theory.
True, our theory does not always coincide with practice. Therefore, it is necessary to build an experimental landfill - the track, kilometers to 10 - 15 with height differences, so that you can prove [that the technology is realizable].
The professor also emphasized the need to prove not only technical capabilities, but also cost recovery in the near future.
- Any breakthrough technology will always be either dead-end due to its high cost and zero efficiency, or it will show what can really bring profit. It is necessary to understand that only what makes a profit now lives. Technology that does not bring it, remains a theory.
In mid-October, String Technologies will set a zero-kilometer mark in SkyWay EcoTechnoPark under Maryina Gorka. They promise to show the current city system in a year - in the fall of 2016.
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Под Марьиной Горкой достраивают полигон "транспорта будущего" (28-29 June 2017) In Marjina Horka they finish building the foundation of the “transport of the future”
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Под Марьиной Горкой достраивают полигон "транспорта будущего" и ждут Лукашенко
In Marjina Horka they finish building the foundation of the “transport of the future” and wait for Lukashenko
By Anna Ermachenok (28 June 2017, updated 29 June 2017)
In Pukhovichsky district, a testing ground for “string transport” by Anatoly Yunitsky was built. Modules are already driving here, but the stated maximum speeds are not shown right now. TUT.BY visited the facility and looked at what the inventor with an ambiguous reputation managed to build in two years, who promises to make a revolution in world transport.
[photo of a unibus at the EcoTechnoPark]
Recall, Anatoly Yunitsky - the head of CJSC "String Technologies" and its general designer. He has been working on the string transport project for several decades. The engineer started projects under the SkyWay brand in different countries, but during all this time he hasn’t presented working samples of high-speed transport.
Yunitsky announced plans to build a park near Marjina Horka two years ago. Then, for the construction, the company received 35 hectares of land in the Pukhovichsky district and work permits.
>>> With a speed of 500 km / h. Inventors are looking for $ 300 million for the “road of the future” near Marina Gorka
According to the engineer, transport modules on steel wheels should move along rails stretched between the supports. A string rail is a bundle of prestressed tensioned steel wires placed in a concrete-filled body. The transport itself is raised to a height of several meters above the ground.
The distance between the main (anchor) supports can be much larger than that of ordinary bridges, from 1 to 5 kilometers. Between intermediate supports - 40−60 meters and more. Engineer promised speeds much higher than in modern trains - up to 500 km / h outside the city and up to 150 km / h - within it.
What is happening at the site now
The object that we are shown is called SkyWay EcoTechnoPark. Now you can see five roads, two stations and several transport modules.
An engineer leads to a three-story building. On the second floor, a station is planned for suspended unibuses of urban lines (speed up to 150 km / h), on the third - for intercity-mounted transport (up to 500 km / h). According to Anatoly, such a station will be able to pass 50 million passengers a year.
[photos of them working on SkyWay buildings at the EcoTechnoPark]
The string-rails are also almost ready. Unibuses and unibikes are already driving around them - this is what self-managed mobile modules, built specifically for the project, are called here.
Now, according to the engineer, transport cannot accelerate to speeds above 80 km / h. The maximum speed - 150 km / h - is not yet demonstrated: there is no concrete in the rails. By July 1, they plan to pour concrete, but the modules will not be overclocked for security reasons.
Especially for us are satisfied with a couple of "races":
[a YouTube films of a moving vehicle and 3 photos of vehicles on other tracks]
Unibuses for urban lines are also ready. They were in Minsk, according to Yunitsky, at work, which was followed by the e-mobile project.
Shows engineer from inside for a city. It has 8 seats and 16 more standing places. As planned by the developers, they can walk every 20 seconds and carry 20 thousand passengers per day.
Yunitsky announced plans to build a park near Marina Gorka two years ago. Then, for the construction, the company received 35 hectares of land in the Pukhovichsky district and work permits.
[3 photos – Yunitskiy is pictured next to one of his vehicles and inside one of them]
The inventor also demonstrates a double unibike, which he considers to be a substitute for private cars and taxis. “Then we will sell the salon, and this (part of the device with a motor) will be leased. Then the salon will cost a couple of thousand dollars, ”he estimates.
[3 photos of the cars with 2 seats one behind the other and people sitting in them]
Unitsky is confident that his project outperforms all existing modes of transport in energy efficiency. The engineer believes that such transport will save fuel and oxygen, and also reduce the emission of carcinogens into the Earth’s atmosphere.
“We have many detractors here”
According to the plan, the total cost of the park is $ 250 million. The company says that now the construction took about 10% of the total amount. (Earlier in the text it was stated that $ 250 million had already been spent. The company noted that this was not the case).
Yunitskiy claims that the Belarusian enterprise receives investments from a foreign fund, and he suggests that ordinary people buy the company's shares in the hope that they will become more expensive in the future. No guarantees. In social networks, many people are trying to persuade others to join the project through them.
There is a garden on the side of the roads and a name plate on each tree. These are the names of those who invested in the project more than a thousand dollars. Larger investors have their statues.
[2 photo of the lines of trees at the EcoTechnoPark and an investor’s statue wrapped in a black plastic sheet]
According to Yunitsky, now the project has more than three hundred thousand investors from 237 countries and territories. How many people have invested in a project in our country, the engineer does not know and stresses that “it is prohibited in Belarus”. In general, Anatoly reacts nervously to investment talks.
- Why should I now talk about investing, which I do not do? I am an engineer, understand? And I do not give any guarantees to investors. There are investment funds, ask them. Considering that we have a lot of ill-wishers here - in Belarus, in Russia and around the world.
“I was mistaken for forty years - I went around the ministries, oligarchs”
Not all experts consider the project feasible. Anatoly tells how recently the Minister of Transport, Deputy Prime Minister Kalinin and the Rector of BelGUT visited the facility. The engineer was not satisfied with the visit: according to him, the minister did not see innovations, called the project questionable and unnecessary.
- He even called me a criminal, because we drove the deputy prime minister on an uncertified vehicle! - the inventor complains.
[photo of Yunitskiy making a point]
Anatoly hopes that Alexander Lukashenko will visit the park. The engineer recalls how in 1997 he expressed support for the project. In March of this year, the president was sent an invitation to visit the park, but “the date is not yet known.” Although soon the inventor declares that he does not need government support.
- I was mistaken, probably, was blind for forty years. I went to presidents, ministries, ministers, sheikhs, oligarchs ... I was looking for support, I was looking for funding. And he worked. What have I understood over the years? No need to look for any support, you just have to do it - they will come. Therefore, when I came to Belarus, I did not go anywhere - they come to me, I do not go to them.
[4 photos from EcoTechnoPark tracks; the last shows Yunitskiy with a model of the ZiL truck in the background]
To questions about the legality of money-collection schemes, the inventor responds sharply:
“Some people accuse us of being crooks, scammers.” Naturally it is not so! Do swindlers spend money on it? They, probably, steal them and run away. I'm not hiding from anyone, I'm open. This is nowhere in the world. The same Elon Musk or, say, Hyperloop - now they have collected 200 million dollars. And what did they do? So they are not crooks, they are Americans, geniuses. It is us, Belarusians, - swindlers. And look what we did for less money!
The company plans to be certified this year. Recently, "String Technologies" received another plot near the polygon - a narrow strip of land 22 kilometers long. They plan to start building there in the fall, with the availability of investments - another $ 200 million.
“On this route, in two years, we’ll show a speed of 500 kilometers per hour,” Anatoly promises.
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Общественный транспорт со скоростью Формулы 1 (7 September 2017) Public transport with the speed of Formula 1
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Общественный транспорт со скоростью Формулы 1: кто в SkyWay отвечает за скорость
Public transport with the speed of Formula 1: who in SkyWay is responsible for the speed
By Mikhail Kirichenko
Not only to catch up, but also to overtake the world leaders in the field of transport. To solve an ambitious task in Belarus took specialists from the company CJSC "String Technologies". The team employs riders, mechanics, engineers, designers. Behind everyone - a great experience and its own story. The overall goal is to create a new generation of vehicles: high-speed (up to 500 km / h), urban (up to 150 km / h) and cargo SkyWay. About who in Belarus wants to be the fastest and what races SkyWay creators managed to win before - this article.
[photo of two of the tracks at EcoTechnoPark]
TEXT: Unibike (in the foreground) and unibus (in the back) - SkyWay rolling stock on special ramps.
The vehicles of the future, SkyWay argues, are electric cars on steel wheels, traveling on special rails. Alexander Sinkevich, who talks about himself and his team, is leading the work on the creation of such machines.
[photo of a group of people]
TEXT: Alexander Sinkevich (center) in the SkyWay assembly shop.
The backbone of the team began to take shape 30 years ago, when our interlocutor, while the founder of the legendary MAZ-TRT racing team, was able to refute the axiom-like statement of the classic Russian poetry and put the horse and the quivering doe into one cart! Speaking of modern prose - to create a legendary sports team that won countless road-ring races on its “battle bison” - sports MAZs.
Then there was the team "MAZ-Yarovit" on the freight trial, in which the future production manager of SkyWay worked as a sports director. With it, he won two European Championships, two CIS Championships, he himself gained experience in organizing and conducting competitions. In general, for his glorious sports career, Alexander was an engineer, mechanic, team leader, organizer of competitions and a judge. And then he became the ideological father of the program of the Russian national electric car, boldly baptized, as “Yo-mobile” ...
Today, the founder and inspirer of high-profile projects of the past talks about his journey to SkyWay.
[Black and white photo of men in front of a vehicle]
TEXT: The end of the 1980s. Alexander Sinkevich (third from left) and SkyWay test department head Dmitry Kniga (first from right).
With all the richness of choice, there was no alternative
“In the project where I go to work, the novelty, originality and complexity of the tasks are important. Often the criticism and disbelief that it is possible to do this is the motive. And for me, the result is still important, which I, in fact, always wanted, no matter where I worked. In the SkyWay project, I was especially attracted: the novelty and original, unusual look of Anatoly Yunitsky on the transport of the future, the engineering tasks set by him, which have to be solved.
[Photo of two people looking at a half-finished vehicle]
TEXT: Alexander Sinkevich and general designer, SkyWay author Anatoly Yunitsky
The relationship of family, friends and acquaintances to work in the company
Of course, there are many skeptics. And even in the circle of my friends. At the same time, a positive attitude to the project prevails: each of them would be happy for its successful implementation. They would be proud that this is done by our people! It seems to me that some of them have an element of envy, for it would be interesting to work in such a project, but for some reason this is not yet possible.
[photo of a whole team of people posing at the SkyWay workshop]
TEXT: team of the pilot production of SkyWay
The Team
When a little more than a year ago there was a task to move from design and modeling to the production of vehicle samples — namely, at that moment I was invited to perform this task — 3.5 months remained to the InnoTrans 2016 exhibition in Berlin. Naturally, in order to perform such an important task in such a short time I needed to gather specialists in whom I would be sure: in their qualifications, capabilities, capabilities, etc. Naturally, I turned to the people with whom I had worked in various projects, of which there were many, beginning in the late 1980s, when I initiated the creation of a ring racing team at MAZ to participate in the European Championships in racing races.
[photo of a man in a truck]
TEXT: Dmitry Kniga at the European Truck Traial Championship in 2001
Who came from motor racing in SkyWay
And one person from that team, master of sports Dmitry Kniga, who was an engineer and mechanic in it, is now working with me. We built a car together, went to the races together, and served it together ... In general, we did all the work from beginning to end. It turns out that we have been cooperating - albeit intermittently and in different projects - for 30 years already! Today, Dmitry heads the test department.
[Photo a Kniga posing in front of a SkyWay panel]
TEXT: Dmitry Kniga, Head of SkyWay Test Department.
Speaking of colleagues in motor racing, it is impossible not to mention also the master of sports Andrei Rudnitsky, an engineer of the test department. He is really an athlete, he has a remarkable quality even since the time of martial arts - the mood to win! Even before the motor sport victories, Andrei was already the champion of his country, the KMS on karate, who knew perfectly well what “Zanshin” is: in any situation you should be purposeful, but calm, that is be able to meet her without stress, and at the same time make quick decisions. We met in 1996, a lot went together during this time ... This is an athlete! He started many times at Dakar, and it is even impossible to remember all the international competitions and even the World Cups, in which he participated and won the stages, and in the “absolute”. In any case, there are more than a dozen rally-raids on his shoulders, which means that he has at least “iron eggs”! Can such a person fail?
[photo of a guy in racing gear digging in mud next to a car]
TEXT: Andrei Rudnitsky at the World Cup stage, Morocco, 2015.
[photo of the same guy today at the SkyWay workshop]
TEXT: Andrey Rudnitsky - SkyWay Test Engineer.
Or Alexander Kovalik, one of the strongest kart racers of the USSR, master of sports, thirteen-time champion of the BSSR, winner of many all-union competitions, winner of the USSR championship. He is still in perfect physical shape! This person is very pedantic, punctual, accurate, i.e. possessing all qualities necessary in work with units. So he is now engaged in the assembly of our electric motors, where everything must be done perfectly clean and accurate.
[Black and white photo of a go-kart]
TEXT: Alexander Kovalik in competitions, 1974.
[photo of a man at the SkyWay workshop]
TEXT: Alexander Kovalik - locksmith for the mechanical assembly work of the SkyWay electrical installation site.
It is impossible not to mention Vladimir Alkhimovich, master of sports of the USSR in self-similar sports, who possesses enormous knowledge and experience, owns aluminum casting technologies, works with various types of plastic, as well as with the smallest details of which large-scale rolling stock models and track structure models are made Unitskogo transport.
[photo of a man seated in front of a desk covered with devices]
Vladimir Alkhimovich - Turner of the SkyWay model site.
If youth knew, if old age could ...
The workshop has a large number of mechanics who worked as mechanics in sports teams, and we are talking about high-performance sports, the level of the championships of Russia, Europe, the world! SkyWay rolling stock is made by people who have extensive experience in creating vehicles with which they later participated and won major competitions. That's the whole point!
There are dozens of other former colleagues that I could gather. They constituted the backbone of the team that mastered the fulfillment of the task set by General Designer Anatoly Yunitsky last year. But these tasks are becoming more complex, their number is growing, so now I have 74 people under my command. When forming a team capable of solving the most complex and interesting tasks - which is obvious, because we are building rolling stock, which will soon fly along the string rails at a speed of 500 km / h, which even race drivers did not dream of - we observe a reasonable balance in the quantitative ratio between the experimental and young employees, and the words “mentoring” and “continuity” are fundamental here.
[Photo of the unibus on its track at the EcoTechnoPark]
TEXT: Unibus - the so-called SkyWay vehicle - on a special overpass.
How to get to work in SkyWay
The principle of team building is the following: first of all, these are the professionals with whom I worked, whom I trust and know how to lead them. In the second - those who were brought first, being confident in their professional qualities, no less than I in these of their former colleagues.
[photo of Alexandr Sinkevich]
We continue to recruit people - we need great specialists! Everyone we work with now came once, one might say, “from the street”, so for those interested in what we do, our doors are open anyway. But I place additional demands on them, because only the team is able to work in our conditions, very similar to those existing in sports. And our team is very similar to the sport in its organization, ideology, mood, psychology and relationships! For me, my staff is a set of high-quality precision tools, not a pile of rusty scrap. When I open the cabinet, I see amazing keys, each in its place. And, if I have a new task, I must fill in the empty places. At the same time, I am aware of the fact that for my supervisor I am myself the same tool in achieving my intended goal.
I have a double task: on behalf of the leadership, to strive for the team to solve the task and, at the same time, protect its interests before the employer. And subordinates are well aware and feel. Only if such a balance is maintained can productive work be possible.
[photo of a computer-generated image of SkyWay track in front of a rainbow]
TEXT: Visualization: high-speed (top) and urban (bottom) SkyWay.
Team spirit
It is on these principles that our team is created. You can call this approach a mutual responsibility, the Italian mafia ... it does not matter, because the result is important! I learned this for many years, starting with the team “MAZ-TRT”, which participated in circuit races, where everyone was friends, young, funny guys who managed to achieve great success: despite the difficult times, many times we were on the podium of the European Championships in England, Belgium, France ... It was very difficult to fight with the teams of Mercedes, MAN, Volvo, SCANIA and others. These were rivals that it was scary to just look at them! But for several years of hard work we managed to create a competitive car. And, frankly speaking, it was done on moral and volitional qualities, because we naturally didn’t have comparable budgets, we actually worked on the project at the plant with six people who designed and built this car themselves. My attitude is that the engineer must have dirty hands. A white collar can not create a full-fledged operating mechanism! The engineers who work with me, always do their own hands in the workshop and in the field what they have designed on the computer.
[photo of a number of men working on a SkyWay vehicles]
TEXT: A SkyWay Unibus during assembly
Once in England, in addition to the third place won at the European Championships, we received the Team Spirit Cup - Team Spirit. For us, he was more important than the podium at that time. We felt that team spirit is needed! Since then, with this thought, I live and work in completely different projects. If not, the result will not be.
What is characteristic of technical sports? This is the collective work of a large number of people where you didn’t screw up one gadget, because you were too lazy to reach out and destroyed the work of the whole team. A racer is a star standing on top of a pyramid. But so do all the others who remain in the shadows. They do not have star disease, but they have an inner core. And this is in addition to excellent professional qualities!
What else does sport produce?
It is this - the formation of character, accuracy, attitude to work - and is the most important in technical sports and in motor sports, in particular.
The knowledge, experience and people who have been working with me since the early 1990s were very useful today for the SkyWay project. Only one example - an important role in ensuring the safety of passengers of String Transport Unitsky is played by the technology of welding spatial frames. Those professionals who once cooked safety cages for racing cars, now make frames for SkyWay, which are aluminum spatial structures. Accumulated experience is adapted to the new conditions.
In the rolling stock, we also use sports brakes. We must be sure that we provide him the best performance. When we move to the industrial production stage, we will certainly give up the excessiveness of sports “stuff” and optimize the brakes, making their efficiency and cost necessary and sufficient.
[Photo of equipment at the SkyWay workshop]
TEXT: Pilot production of SkyWay
How useful the experience of creating "E-Mobile"
About 10 years ago I worked in partnership with Yuri Shif, having put my hand to the design of a couple of dozen bikes that became winners and medalists at international championships, including the world championship. On the basis of merit in the field of transport and industrial design, we were accepted into the Belarusian Union of Designers. In 2009, we were offered to develop the concept of a city car of the future using a hybrid power plant, which was the only prerequisite. For 4 months, we have created, without exaggeration, engineering and philosophical work about where the automotive industry is going, what will happen in the field of transport in 20-30 years and how to prepare for it. This understanding led me to SkyWay, where I brought all my experience. At that time, Mikhail Prokhorov, who was already rich and wanted to become famous, became interested in the project. Everything quickly began to turn, I became the technical manager of the project, with my participation his name was chosen, a PR campaign was developed, etc.
Unfortunately, then the development of “E-Mobile” went in the opposite direction and from the original concept in what happened at the end - despite the achievement of engineering and technical results, including the creation of prototypes and samples of the first stage - nothing remained, except for the hybrid installation. I realized that the project will not be and left him. I can only do what I believe in!
[computer-generated idealistic SkyWay image]
TEXT: Visualization: SkyWay unibus on a special overpass.
In addition to the experience with hybrid drives, transmissions and drives, from that project I brought SkyWay the ability to work with composite materials - prepregs, carbon, Kevlar, etc., which I first encountered when I was a technical director in a joint Belarusian-German joint venture " JAK Automotive Technology Ltd. back in the 1990s. We carried out orders for European motor racing: we designed racing cars for Formula 3, Formel Junior, ADAC-BMW Formel Junior, etc., made cars for Mercedes-AMG DTM, body and transmission parts for Porsche, Opel ... Materials brought from Germany, but all this was done in Minsk according to the technologies used in auto racing and aircraft industry! Therefore, do not be surprised when today Unitsky compares a unibus with a Boeing.
Several dozens of engineers, with whom I worked both at Yo-Mobile and Yarovit, today work not only with me in production, but also at KB String Technologies. For example, from colleagues in the E-Mobile project, Dmitry Zabrodsky, who was in charge of the test bureau there, is working with me now.
Experience in engineering and work in the most modern packages is also in demand by SkyWay. The design experience obtained earlier is no less valuable than everything sounded above.
What is the SkyWay project for the team?
Anatoly Yunitskiy shouldered a very heavy burden, and we must all share it. His merit is to create a whole concept of global transport, organized on completely new principles, but this is the philosophical side of the issue. And the technical is as follows: we must not only create the transport of the future, but also build roads for it! Therefore, all those who come here to work should realize that we do not have milk rivers with milk and honey, but rather sugar plantations. But personally, I work only with people whom I respect, and only as long as I believe in the project. ”
More information about SkyWay on the website of CJSC String Technologies: http://sw-tech.by/
Interviewed by Mikhail Kirichenko.
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Струнный транспорт против журналистов и ученых (5 August 2018) String transport against journalists and scientists
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Струнный транспорт против журналистов и ученых. Как в Марьиной Горке прошел ЭкоФест-2018
String transport against journalists and scientists.
What happened at the EcoFest-2018 in Maryina Gorka
Dmitry Smirnov (5 August 2018)
Several thousand people with flags, balloons and smartphones on selfie-sticks came from Russia, England, Norway, Switzerland and even Colombia with Indonesia, the smell of kebab everywhere, the unbearable heat and, of course, string transport. Yesterday, EcoFest-2018 passed at Maryina Gorka at EcoTechnoPark, where it was told about the future of the ambiguously perceived SkyWay project by Anatoly Yunitsky.
Recall, under the SkyWay brand, Anatoly Yunitsky, General Designer of String Technologies, is developing a high-speed “string transport” project.
According to the engineer, transport modules on steel wheels should move along rails stretched between the supports. A string rail is a bundle of prestressed tensioned steel wires placed in a concrete-filled body. The transport itself is raised to a height of several meters above the ground.
Engineer promised speeds much higher than in modern trains - up to 500 km / h outside the city and up to 150 km / h - within it. And although the project has been in the active phase for more than 10 years, there is still no commercial model of equipment. Previously, the engineer had already tried to launch his projects in Russia and Lithuania. However, the success of his initiative was not crowned, and in Lithuania, suspicions of fraud were raised against him.
SkyWay is developing due to investments, including individuals from all over the world. Investors are invited to become shareholders of the parent company of the project by purchasing a stake (investment in private equity) and earn in the future by increasing the growth of the company's value.
Accreditation refused
And although representatives of the media could register for the event, our portal was denied accreditation. In the explanatory letter, which, as we were told, was agreed with the management, it was reported that “the company did not have a relationship with TUT.BY”.
“From the very beginning, your publications are distinguished by bias towards the project, once having demonstrated that, you are compelled to keep the style to this day,” an e-mail reported. They also talked about "some readers", who at SkyWay "are inclined to be considered lazy marginals, who can only doubt and are naturally inclined to foul where they live, if they, of course, indicate the vector exactly where to foul."
In the letter we were offered to buy a ticket and attend the event on a general basis. The cost of it, starting one month before the event, is $ 35 (in May it could be bought cheaper - for $ 25). And the most expensive thing would be to visit EcoFest, if you buy a ticket on the spot, $ 100.
Paying 70 rubles via the Internet, I received the coveted ticket. By the way, it turned out to be nominal - at the entrance it was necessary to present an identity document.
Check out at 8 am
From 8 to 10 in the morning from the metro station "Pervomayskaya" a transfer to Maryina Gorka was organized. I got to the gathering place at 7.50. By this time, there were about two dozen buses and minibuses on Pervomayskaya, with about 50 people near it.
The volunteers sent the first arrivals to the minibuses, with full filling, they immediately went to Maryina Gorka. I managed to jump into one of the first, where I got the last place - a reclining chair near the driver.
We're going friends to distant lands,” the elderly woman suddenly started singing after me. “I'm from Peter,” she said when I turned. - The third time in Minsk. A peculiar city, clean, but would not want to live here. I came to the EcoFest because I built a Unitsky technopark.
Peter and Svetlana, sitting next door, also came from St. Petersburg. They reported that they have been investing in the project for several years.
- You see, here, of course, you can quickly make money. But we buy hope! This is our future, we need to help Unitsky in this project. We even feel each other energetically, ”Svetlana said. - Of course, you can earn a little, but it is better to save, so that later went in the future. Unitsky has so many innovations - everything will be shown to you in a technopark - both string roads and a new unique drone.
- Drin! - my first companion interrupts her and laughs at her joke.
I ask why they have come such a long way.
“Shake hands with Yunitsky,” says Peter.
- This is a unique person! - Grandma again intervenes.
“It is interesting for me to see what has changed over the year,” says Svetlana, “to go to the museum that was recently built.”
“We were here in the 16th year, so there was nothing, only trees,” continues the elderly Russian woman. And now so many have built ...
I am telling me that I am from Minsk.
- Oh, here in Minsk is no end. We asked the locals if they knew about this project, so nobody knows! - said Russian woman in surprise.
I explain that some people in our country have the opinion that Unitsky may be a fraud. This causes a strong reaction from my interlocutors.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! - Grandma exclaims loudly.
“As soon as a genius is born, so many people begin to spread rot, put pressure on him,” Peter says emotionally. - In Lithuania, they also considered him a fraud, a KGB spy. So what? Three years have passed, and the case was closed.
- One and a half million of our money was lost because of this! In the most difficult time for the project - Svetlana laments.
My interlocutors are sure that the “strings” of Unitsky in the future will be replaced by all other types of transport:
- Railway, and especially ground, which pollutes the environment. Immediately, cows cannot graze around the roads, leukemia can begin again, ”says Peter. - And the kilometer of our route is 2−5 million dollars, and asphalt - 50 million.
“This is an approach for the sake of the future man,” concludes his fellow traveler.
I distract from the interlocutors, but with the edge of my ear I hear Svetlana continue to resent the criticism of Yunitskiy. Meanwhile, under the grandmother's songs about the fields, we drove up to the technopark.
"40 years of thinking"
Among the ticket holders there were 2100 rides on the string transport, while there were about twice as many visitors. Svetlana, who was ahead, was lucky. With shouts “I won, I won, thank SkyWay!” She went ahead with a ticket for a unibus - “string” bus.
Luck turned away from me, which means I did not have a chance to ride. Therefore, past the stalls with souvenirs and food, deployed by local merchants, I went to the newly built museum here.
Fortunately, at 9 am there were almost no people in the ecopark. A small room demonstrated the history of SkyWay from 1966, when 10-grader Unitsky received a certificate for his model of a launching platform, until now. All this was illustrated not only with photos, but also with real objects. For example, the inventor's school desk with an inkwell.
The ceiling was decorated with the names of investors (people were actively looking for their own), and one of the walls was a large photograph of Unitsky, near which all were photographed endlessly.
I quickly explored the park. There are only three tracks here - one for heavy transport unibuses with a maximum capacity of 48 people, the second, the fastest, for 14-seater unibuses (“minibuses”), another one — the highest with sagging spans — for 6-seater unicars.
In addition, the same “unique drone” Combo was demonstrated, capable of lifting up to 1,250 kg of cargo, which looks like a small helicopter.
They want to use it according to plan for delivering materials to hard-to-reach places. However, there was no demonstration of the drone's abilities at the EcoFest - “for the sake of people’s safety”, but the young guys were actively launching a small copy of it into the sky.
Next to the helicopter drones, a large field kitchen with pavilions was installed. True, they promised to feed only at 15 o'clock.
In addition to the names on the ceiling of the museum, SkyWay investors got the right to plant their trees in a large garden set up nearby. If it was absolutely accurate, they planted trees for them earlier, and at the entrance investors could take a sign with their last name and, with the help of a gardener, install it near an already planted tree.
In the very center there is a food zone: a platform with improvised chairs in the form of wooden pallets with hay, large screens and speakers.
The food zone mercilessly smelled kebabs that spread throughout the park and lured the international audience inside, and the screens were periodically shown videos about the achievements of SkyWay and Unitsky personally. In particular, they talked about his “40 years of reflection” on his project.
Throughout the entire EcoTechnoPark zone, free Wi-Fi worked (albeit password-protected for some reason), and besides, guests could directly connect a life :) or MTS SIM card on the spot.
Probably the strangest "exhibits" of the exhibition are two human bushes. They took pictures with visitors, and for some reason, they roared and spoke with a strange accent.
Right behind them in the photo - “string bridge” is another invention of Unitsky. Later, he will tell you that his construction is twice as cheap as a conventional bridge. Probably it is, but I would not recommend walking on it to people with a weak vestibular apparatus - the building is pretty swinging.
“Reality,” said the guy from Lithuania who was standing on the bridge next to me and took a selfie on the background of a passing unicar.
"This is exclamation!"
It was 10 am - a time when the first lucky ones could ride on unibuses and unicars. Near the main "station", on the first floor of which the museum is located, a queue has gathered.
"Skyway, skyway, skyway," the crowd chanted, and the trailer started off slowly.
Since I did not get a ticket for the transport of the future, I had to catch the lucky ones at the exits.
Nina Ivanovna from Russia was one of the first to ride a large unibus:
- Great, but it does not go very fast, of course. Has my expectations been met? It is hard to say. Maybe yes. Normal, nice and not hot.
Nearby, in the meantime, they also launched a stringed minibus “minibus” ...
... and high-rise 6-seater unicar:
Vladimir was delighted with the trip to the faster 16-local unibas:
- Exclamation! I liked the smoothness of the course, even if the speed is small - it works in the test mode. In general, cool, impressive. I myself am from Krasnodar. It's far away, but what to do. I come here for the second year in a row to make sure that the money has been invested correctly, not in some MMM. MMM money laid out in his pockets, and this is a living metal, transport.
He was surprised at the controversial attitude towards string transport in Belarus:
- Well, I'm sorry, so it was with many inventors. Ford, for example, was considered a fraud at one time. I invest not in order to earn money, but in order for it all to take place. Earn or not earn, this is a bonus. So far I have invested about fifteen hundred dollars in a project. This is a little, some of my friends have invested much more.
Vladimir liked our country.
- What to say about Belarus. As always, exclamation! Here is neat, neat, clean. Relatives drove us through the main streets of Minsk. Loved it. And Belarusians are our relatives, how else can it be?
"I thought you live in poverty"
- Won Dutch went, - shows the guy standing next to the highway to the girl standing next to her.
Indeed, it was quite possible to hold a competition for the knowledge of flags, since almost all foreigners went with the symbol of their country.
And who just was not there. I personally saw the flags of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Romania, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan. In addition, representatives of more exotic countries could be found here - for example, Colombia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Indonesia and even New Zealand.
People seemed to say: "See where I come from." Periodically, international teams wove and began to take pictures. It turned out like this:
I managed to talk to a couple of people. For example, with Cliff, who lives in Wolverhampton, England. He came here for visa-free travel for 3 days and had already managed to walk around Minsk one day before the festival.
- It's not hard for me to come that far. In SkyWay, I invested about a thousand pounds (about $ 1,300 at the current rate. - Approx. TUT.BY). I am absolutely sure that behind this project is the future, SkyWay will develop its network throughout the world. As far as I know, about 40 Englishmen came here to the park.
This is Cliff's first visit to Belarus.
- I really liked Minsk - it is clean, neat, people are very friendly. The only negative is the language barrier, but these are trifles. As far as I understand, your crime rate is very low, but here in England, on the contrary.
Not far from Cliff is another foreigner. This is Cyril from Zurich, Switzerland.
- I invested in SkyWay somewhere one or two thousand euros. Am I right? We'll see (smiles). I can not say that this is the future, but it looks very futuristic. The Internet, too, once did not seem to be the future, but look what is happening now.
I ask how he liked Belarus.
- A very good country. When I was driving, I thought you were living in poverty, but it turned out to be completely different. I am positively surprised. I liked Belarus, and I am glad that I came here.
Almost a rock star
The chief designer and founder of SkyWay, Anatoly Yunitsky, appeared at the EcoFest around 10 am. From now on, I occasionally met him at different points in the park, but each time he was accompanied by bodyguards and a crowd of fans and fans, just like a rock star.
This girl just took a photo with the inventor and now happily reports this to someone via Skype.
As far as I saw, Yunitsky did not refuse anyone to photograph, autograph or answer the question. “The whole world is grateful to you,” I heard the exclamation of one of the fans who had come to a photo session with the designer.
As a result, his communication with visitors was so prolonged that he had to move the solemn speech for an hour, which, however, did not embarrass the visitors who hid under large tents and laid out their dinners there.
By the way, alcohol at the event was completely banned. He could not be carried with him or bought on the territory of EcoFest. For the whole day I have not met a single drunk person in the territory.
Got both TUT.BY, and "Onliner"
And then came the climax. Anatoly Yunitsky to the applause of a crowd of international investors rose to the scene.
The general designer of SkyWay summed up the year by talking about what the company has achieved in the last 12 months. Including he mentioned the development of a super-powered drone (it was not shown to us in action), as well as an electric vehicle for people with limited physical abilities - a unimobile, which can travel on a single charge up to 40 km and where the driver's seat can replace the wheelchair.
At the international exhibition this fall, Yunitsky promised to show high-speed string transport, which can accelerate to 500 km / h. But that's not all.
According to the engineer, even before working with the "strings", he conceived a vacuum transport a la hyperloop Elon Musk. And now we have a secret revealed - work on it is already underway, and in a project called hyper U, SkyWay engineers, it turns out, have advanced much further than the founder of Tesla and SpaceX. However, no details of the gathering have not yet been told.
And then the inventor lamented the fact that SkyWay constantly put a stick in the wheel. First, the Lithuanian authorities, who declared him a spy and a fraud (as he said, he is now preparing a lawsuit against the Lithuanian government), and now the Belarusians.
Yunitsky said that he was skeptical of him both in the government and in the Academy of Sciences, which had twice failed to recognize them as a scientific organization. And they add fuel to the fire - TUT.BY and Onliner.
He said that on these resources “a series of custom-made articles were published, in which SkyWay was called a financial pyramid” and “they called on him to sort it out”. He also recalled one of the offensive comments on the article, which, “probably, the corrupt journalists themselves wrote.” Yunitskiy promised to go further and “file for the“ Onliner ”with the European courts,” which caused applause from the public. The designer stated that because of these publications, designers are not going to work for them.
This moment recorded on video:
Due to the negative attitude of the Belarusian scientists and the government, according to Yunitsky, they have not been given a 21-kilometer piece of land for high-speed tests, although "they received 16 permits."
Therefore, the inventor decided that “Mahommed himself goes to the mountain”, “investors cannot wait so much” and announced cooperation with the government of the UAE, where he will test both the high-speed highway and some other SkyWay elements. That once again caused a storm of applause from the assembled investors.
The designer said that the Arabs liked his project so much that they gave him a piece of land worth $ 750 million for free. On it, he wants to deploy an analogue of Silicon Valley - "String Valley". Construction there will begin in September, they are going to invest more than 10 billion dollars in the project. Already working versions of string transport will be tested at the Arab test site, which will then go to other countries in this region and even to Brazil.
At the end of his speech, Yunitsky uttered ambitious plans. According to him, “the market estimates the company at five billion dollars,” and in the near future they plan to build a blockchain platform on a global scale, which will manage the entire string transport system, and also release its cryptocurrency, which will be provided with SkyWay’s growing assets.
By shouting out with the audience the slogan “SkyWay Build - Save the Planet”, Yunitsky received gifts. The first is a picture of a Russian master, made using 20 types of gems. The designer himself is depicted on it.
And the second he prepared guests-investors from Australia and New Zealand, performing their national dance. It looked unusual:
In the question and answer section, one of the investors from Russia thanked God that Unitsky "could carry his dream 40 years later," and wished that "you win, we win all the courts."
After a couple of hours, the free field kitchen with barley, canned meat and compote opened for SkyWay investors, and I went to Minsk on the first bus under the clockwork chanson “There are berries in buttocks”.
EcoFest is over for me.
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Основатель компании подал иск против Литвы на 10 миллионов евро (24 August 2018) Founder of the company filed a lawsuit against Lithuania for 10 million euros
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https://42.tut.by/605613
Основатель компании, строящей струнный транспорт, подал иск против Литвы на 10 миллионов евро
Founder of the company building the string transport, filed a lawsuit against Lithuania for 10 million euros
24 August 2018
SkyWay founder Anatoly Yunitsky filed a lawsuit in the amount of 10,043,182.16 euros to the Lithuanian court on August 17. The defendant in the lawsuit will be the Republic of Lithuania, specifically, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the country's Financial Crime Investigation Service. Earlier, in his speech at the EcoFest-2018, Unitsky said that the unreasonable claims of the Lithuanian authorities threw the development of the SkyWay project back 2 years. This is reported on the company's website.
[YouTube photo of Anatoly Yunitskiy at work at the EchoTechnoPark]
Recall, under the SkyWay brand, Anatoly Yunitsky, General Designer of String Technologies, is developing a high-speed “string transport” project.
According to the engineer, transport modules on steel wheels should move along rails stretched between the supports. A string rail is a bundle of prestressed tensioned steel wires placed in a concrete-filled body. The transport itself is raised to a height of several meters above the ground.
Engineer promised speeds much higher than in modern trains - up to 500 km / h outside the city and up to 150 km / h - within it. And although the project has been in the active phase for more than 10 years, there is still no commercial model of equipment.
SkyWay is developing due to investments, including individuals from all over the world. Investors are invited to become shareholders of the parent company of the project by purchasing a stake (investment in private equity) and earn in the future by increasing the growth of the company's value.
The reason for the claim was the pre-trial investigation begun in 2014 in Lithuania. The authorities were going to reveal signs of illegal financial activity of Unitsky. It lasted about three years and was discontinued a year ago. The prosecutor's office acknowledged that no evidence of the bad faith actions of Unitsky and his partners were found.
The reason for the expulsion of the project from Lithuania was the statement of the Central Bank of the country that the activities of the Yunitsky companies are fraudulent. The businessman’s property was arrested, and the inventor’s family was forced to leave the country and settle in Belarus.
Under Maryina Gorka, SkyWay has built EcoTechnoPark with four types of track structure; a fifth one is already under construction; Four types of rolling stock have been tested and certified; new samples are being tested.
By the way, at the EcoFest-2018 last month, Belarusians were also criticized. In particular, Yunitsky said that he was skeptical of him both in the government and in the Academy of Sciences, which had twice failed to recognize them as a scientific organization. And, according to him, the mass media is adding fuel to the fire - TUT.BY and Onliner.
He said that at these resources “a series of custom-made articles were published, in which SkyWay was called the financial pyramid” and “they called on him to sort it out”. Then Yunitsky promised to go ahead and "file an online application with the European courts."
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Струнный транспорт Юницкого "доехал" до Берлина (20 September 2018) String transport Unitsky "reached" Berlin
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https://42.tut.by/608709
Струнный транспорт Юницкого "доехал" до Берлина
String transport Unitsky "reached" Berlin
20 September 2018
At the international transport exhibition Innotrans 2018, which takes place at the Messe Berlin exhibition center in Berlin from 18 to 21 September, a high-speed unibus, one of the new transport modules of string transport SkyWay, was first introduced, the group's website reports.
[youtube film of the vehicle presented at InnoTrans 2018]
The novelty is a “six-seater high-speed transport module with unique aerodynamic characteristics close to the theoretical limit: the drag coefficient Cx = 0.06”.
SkyWay promises that the estimated transport speed reaches 500 km / h with an energy consumption in fuel equivalent of 0.93 kg / 100 pass * km. At a speed of 100 km / h consumption will be less than 0.1 kg / 100 pass * km.
The release states that "these figures will be a record for a high-speed low-speed wheeled vehicle."
“String Technologies” also presented an 18-seat unicar on Innotrans 2018, which allegedly went through “the whole complex of tests and certification intended for urban passenger traffic at speeds up to 150 km / h.”
[photo of the exhibition hall]
This vehicle is equipped only with seats, it is “distinguished by an increased level of comfort and safety”. It is claimed that unicar is a “record-holder of efficiency in its class: energy consumption in the fuel equivalent of 0.12 kg / 100 pass * km (at a speed of 100 km / h)”.
Recall, under the SkyWay brand, Anatoly Yunitsky, General Designer of String Technologies, is developing a high-speed “string transport” project.
According to the engineer, transport modules on steel wheels should move along rails stretched between the supports. A string rail is a bundle of prestressed tensioned steel wires placed in a concrete-filled body. The transport itself is raised to a height of several meters above the ground.
Engineer promised speeds much higher than in modern trains - up to 500 km / h outside the city and up to 150 km / h - within it. And although the project has been in the active phase for more than 10 years, there is still no commercial model of equipment.
SkyWay is developing due to investments, including individuals from all over the world. Investors are invited to become shareholders of the parent company of the project by purchasing a stake (investment in private equity) and earn in the future by increasing the growth of the company's value.
Under Marjina Horka, SkyWay has built EcoTechnoPark with four types of track structure; a fifth one is already under construction; Four types of rolling stock have been tested and certified; new samples are being tested.
At the EcoFest-2018 that took place at the beginning of the month (be sure to read our report), Yunitskiy said that he is skeptical about him both in the Belarusian government and in the Academy of Sciences, which did not recognize them twice as a scientific organization. And, according to him, the mass media is adding fuel to the fire - TUT.BY and Onliner.
He said that at these resources “a series of custom-made articles were published, in which SkyWay was called the financial pyramid” and “they called on him to sort it out”. Then Yunitsky promised to go ahead and "file an online application with the European courts."
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У бывшего сотрудника SkyWay со счета исчезли доли компании (16 November 2018) A former employee of SkyWay shares disappeared from his account
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https://42.tut.by/615150
У бывшего сотрудника SkyWay со счета исчезли доли компании. Наниматель: "Это крайняя мера"
A former employee of SkyWay company’s shares disappeared from the account. Employer: "This is an extreme measure"
By Anna Ermachenok (16 November 2018)
A former employee of CJSC String Technologies (associated with the SkyWay brand) complained about the disappearance of the company's shares from his account. The company claims that it was an “extreme measure” and threatens the employee with a court for violating the confidentiality agreement.
Year of work and dismissal
Pavel has been working at String Technologies CJSC since the fall of 2015. He held the position of lead design engineer of the KB reinforced concrete products, and after that - the chief designer and head of the department. The specialist was responsible for tasks related to construction. At the end of 2016, Paul terminated the relationship with the company
“Anatoly Yunitsky and I disagreed on how the department and the company should be organized,” recalls the engineer. - I wrote a letter of resignation, I signed it, I left.
The company confirmed this information about their employee, but noted that they were dissatisfied with his work.
“He made serious design errors, which led to disruptions in the schedule of work at the facility and caused substantial material damage,” says the commentary of CJSC “String Technologies”. - This was the reason for his dismissal, although formally he was dismissed by agreement of the parties - the company did not want to exacerbate the material damage to image losses.
More than a million company shares
After the dismissal, Pavel left over 1.3 million shares of Euroasian Rail Skyway Systems Holding Ltd. on the account. They were stored on a virtual platform.
“I didn’t expect much,” he explains. - I did not translate real money into shares, I only ordered certificates two times.
[Photo of a Euroasian Rail Skyway Systems Holding Limited Share Certificate]
Up to a certain point, the shares were displayed on the account of the former employee. In October, the company announced the possibility of selling shares for the earliest investors. You could get a maximum of $ 1,000 for 100,000 shares.
Pavel looked at his own account - but there was nothing there. The receipts of investments were displayed, but there were no charges (Pavel provided the editorial board with screenshots of his personal account). At the same time, no one informed him that the shares might disappear.
“The matter is not even about money, I didn’t hope for anything,” says the engineer. - But the question is how it was done - brazenly and ugly. I have not lost any money. But it seems to me that such a story can happen to anyone who somehow will be unwelcome.
“Deprivation is an extreme measure”
From the commentary of CJSC "String Technologies" it follows that the engineer was deprived of his shares as a "last resort".
- Regarding the shares that were displayed in Paul in the private office, we clarified with Anatoly Yunitsky. He said that Paul was expelled from the SkyWay promotion program. This program involves the transfer of the most active participants in the options project - reserved shares owned by a foreign company UniSky, which they can get at their disposal, provided that their work benefits the development of string transport.
The initiator of such a program is the author of the concept of string transport and the beneficiary of UniSky, SkyWay general designer Anatoly Yunitsky. He personally makes decisions both on the promotion of options and on their deprivation in case of harm to the program participant. Deprivation is an extreme measure that affects only those people who have harmed the project, and extends only to options received free of charge; the rest of the former or current SkyWay supporters retain them in full.
[photo of Yunitskiy making a point]
The company noted that String Technologies CJSC has no relation either to investment activity or to the incentive program. Pavel noted that he had never heard of UniSky before.
"The company will begin legal proceedings"
According to representatives of the company, Pavel should not count on compensation. In addition, the former employer suspected an engineer in providing false media information.
- The company will soon prepare a lawsuit against him and start a trial, because we know that it was he who provided false information about the company to the Onliner Internet portal, which caused reputational damage to the project in addition to the material damage, in connection with which he was fired.
Pavel himself claims that he did not communicate with journalists. Recall that Anatoly Yunitsky had previously been dissatisfied with the work of the Belarusian media and promised to “file an on-line” with the European courts. ”
“It’s possible that Pavel received a reward from Onliner for his slander, who noted for the last two years a whole series of negative and deceitful articles both in my address and in the address of“ String Technologies ”, - writes Anatoly Unitsky “But it seemed to him that it was not enough, then he addressed you, in TUT.BY, knowing that you wrote negative articles about string technologies. Since this unscrupulous employee suffered such a significant damage to the project (so far, its consequences have not been completely eliminated), the company intends to initiate a criminal case against him in order to compensate for the material damage caused to String Technologies and the project investors. Pavel is not.
[photo of one of the EcoTechnoPark tracks]
In addition, the company believes that Pavel violated the confidentiality agreement he signed.
- It says that during the period of its validity and indefinitely after termination, the signatory undertakes not to make public statements about the company, especially false and slanderous, without prior permission and approval of the text of speeches or statements. For that, by the way, within the framework of the Belarusian legislation, punishment is also provided, up to the criminal one.
What is the difference between employee and investor?
SkyWay is developing through investment, including individuals from around the world. Investors are invited to become shareholders of the parent company of the project by purchasing a stake (investment in private equity) and earn in the future by increasing the growth of the company's value.
Earlier, Anatoly Yunitsky reported that the project has more than three hundred thousand investors from 237 countries and territories. How many people invested in the project in our country, the engineer did not know and stressed that “it is prohibited in Belarus”.
The certificate of Pavel looks like the certificates that are received by the company's investors. In addition, the entrance to his personal account and the investor's office were at the same address on the Internet.
[image of another share certificate]
TEXT: Certificates of investors of the project in 2015 looked like this. Photo: rsw-systems.com
Representatives of "String Technologies" assure: the share of real investors can not be alienated.
- It is important to emphasize that Pavel is not an investor of the project and did not invest his personal funds in his development. The shares were reserved on the basis of an oral agreement, the terms of which were violated by him. Unlike the situation with Pavel, the reserved shares of real investors cannot be alienated without good reasons - this is recorded in the documents governing the process of acquiring investment shares in the SkyWay project.
[photo Yunitskiy at EcoTechnoPark surrounded by people]
TEXT: Anatoly Yunitskiy and SkyWay investors. Photo: Dmitri Smirnov
If any of the investors in the personal account no longer receive the acquired investment shares, they are recommended to contact technical support. String Technologies CJSC emphasizes that they have no relation to it either, technical support is located outside Belarus.
- Recall, under the SkyWay brand, Anatoly Yunitsky, General Designer of String Technologies, is developing a high-speed “string transport” project.
- According to the engineer, transport modules on steel wheels should move along rails stretched between the supports. A string rail is a bundle of prestressed tensioned steel wires placed in a concrete-filled body. The transport itself is raised to a height of several meters above the ground.
- Engineer promised speeds much higher than in modern trains - up to 500 km / h outside the city and up to 150 km / h - within it. And although the project has been in the active phase for more than 10 years, there is still no commercial model of equipment. Previously, the engineer had already tried to launch his projects in Russia and Lithuania. However, the success of his initiative was not crowned, and in Lithuania, suspicions of fraud were raised against him. Later, the pre-trial investigation was discontinued, and Anatoly Yunitsky filed a counterclaim against the Lithuanian law enforcement agencies.
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Белорусский струнный транспорт добрался до Дубая (2 May 2019) Belarusian string transport reached Dubai
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https://42.tut.by/636215
Белорусский струнный транспорт добрался до Дубая
Belarusian string transport reached Dubai
полностью: https://42.tut.by/636215
2 May 2019
Mohammed Ibn Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, approved the construction of the SkyWay city transport system in Dubai. This is reported in the official Twitter-account details.
[Photo of the Unicar at the EcoTechnoPark]
It also says that "the SkyWay project, the 15-kilometer city transit system, will transport passengers between the skyscrapers in Dubai to 21 stations."
The Dubai Media Office resource specifies that the features of the Skypods project (as SkyWay is represented in the Emirates) include “the unique design of the stations and the presence of supports supporting the rails that extend along the entire path”. In addition, the project "must be harmonious with respect to the Dubai Metro."
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