Gennadiy Kiryushin: “Success for me is the realization of the plans and the recognition. I am convinced that success is closely linked to the nature of the individual. The success forces to be strong. And strong-willed people are most often successful.”.

Gennadiy Kiryushin

• Author of more than 14 scientific publications, author and co-author of 6 patented inventions.
• Candidate of Technical Sciences.
• Academician of the International Academy of Communications.
• Has the honorary title of “Master of Communication” (awarded by the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation).
• Chairman of the Samara regional branch of the All-Russian Public Organization “Business Russia”.

Kiryushin Gennadiy was born on August 8, 1949 in Orenburg. After nine grades he transferred to evening school and got a job. Two years later he entered Odessa Popov Electrotechnical Institute of Communications. As a young specialist he started his career in the position of a site foreman, and then became Chief Engineer of MPK-503. Later he moved to Kuibyshev and worked in Kuibyshev Electrotechnical Institute of Communications until 1986. Over the next 10 years he has been the leading engineer, chief specialist, then chief of department and deputy chief engineer, working on the development of communication systems in the experimental design bureau Yantar.

1991 was the year of the creation of CJSC SMARTS. Gennadiy Kiryushin headed the company as CEO. Now SMARTS operates in 12 regions

Effective management allowed forming a highly professional team, which included technical experts, marketers, managers, and operators of the contact center. SMARTS has become one of the largest players in the telecommunications market, providing communication services to subscribers of the Volga region and Central Russia, the coverage area of the network signal extends to 13 regions.

Several years ago SMARTS faced a catastrophic lack of backbone fiber-optic communication lines in our country. Employees began to study Russian and foreign markets. International experience has shown that laying fiber-optic backbone networks using the existing road infrastructure is an efficient technology that for many years has been used in Ireland, Sweden, Finland, the USA, Asia and other countries.

The technology involves the use of road infrastructure for laying from 2 to 10 protective plastic micro tubes across the roadsides. For this, micro trenches from 5 to 15 cm wide and 40 cm deep are made. The tubes are combined in cassettes with a width of 10 cm and a thickness of 4 cm, in which micro cables with fiber count of 8 to 288 can be laid. In addition, special cable wells are installed at each kilometer and in places of branches from the roads that allows for easily accessible attachment points for connection to the telecommunications infrastructure of base stations of mobile operators, local Internet service providers, local authorities and enterprises.

SMARTS decided to use this technology in our country and started to develop a project for laying trunk communication lines. It is planned to lay about 150 thousand km of fiber optic links (including nearly 40,000 kilometers of federal highways to the centers of 83 constituent entities of the Russian Federation).

The Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives approved the project. Now ASI helps to overcome administrative barriers. Currently, the issue on amendments to some legal acts is being solved at the interministerial level. First of all, construction code and regulations (SNiP) for roads need to be changed. There are already some positive results; we managed to get approvals from the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Economic Development to conduct an experiment in the Samara region and the Crimea.