The history of MOSTOBUD Open Joint Stock Co. dates back to the years of the World War II, when bridge-building teams erected bridges under fire and actually even broke world records. A famous story about this can even now be heard in Kiev – in 1943 there was a strong need to rebuilt Darnytsky Bridge over the Dnipro River, which had been destroyed by the German army before. The construction went on day and night, without a minute of break, with the speed of 81,5 m per day, while being bombed all the time by the enemy’s army. The world had never seen something like that before. Just in 13 days the first tanks went over the bridge from the left bank of the river to the right one.

Thus, it’s not surprising that nowadays MOSTOBUD Company is a leader in bridge construction in the whole CIS.

MOSTOBUD was founded in 1945 and reorganized into the Open Joint Stock Company in 1993. For 60 years the company has been working without any complaints from clients.

Almost all bridge constructions in Ukraine (i.e. over 5000 objects) have been built by MOSTOBUD Company, including every bridge in the capital city, Kiev. MOSTOBUD constructions have been erected and are successfully used not only in Ukraine, but also in the former Soviet states, Afghanistan, Angola, Vietnam, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Finland, Czech Republic…and many contracts about bridge construction have been signed with other countries.

The high level of MOSTOBUD’s corporate management is supported by DSTU 9001:2001 certificate, which equals to the international quality certificate ISO 9001:2000.

The trademark MOSTOBUD has already gained recognition and trust among customers, who appreciate the company for using only the latest technologies and being always ready to fulfill any order in time. There’s a strong need of new bridge constructions in Ukraine due to the EURO-2012 Championship, and thus, MOSTOBUD has an opportunity to show its best potential.

The company has gained unique experience in planning, building and reconstructing of automobile bridges, foot bridges, underground bridges, railroad bridges, auto and railway tunnels, overpasses all over the world in severe climate conditions from Polar Regions to hot Africa.

Both the Design Bureau in the company structure, equipped with modern technology and software, and professional and skilled staff allow to carry out especially complicated calculations quickly and to offer new and unique projects of steel and ferroconcrete bridge constructions of any complexity, to project according to the Euro-codes, the bridge construction norms of the USA and Russia. MOSTOBUD offers high quality colour printing and animation to demonstrate projects to its customers.

11 universal mobile bridge-teams with their own specialists and equipment, deployed across all Ukraine, allow to focus powerful industrial forces on the most important objects and to react flexibly to region inquiries. But each bridge-team can carry out all bridge construction works independently.

MOSTOBUD is the company with the hundred percent national capital. When a new young command of investors came in 2003, the joint-stock company began to develop rapidly. Against the year 2002 today's MOSTOBUD has increased the amount of works by 9 times, the number of employees has grown almost twofold, and average wages (including those in regions) have increased by 3 times and now are almost the same as in the capital city.

The program of vocational training and retraining of specialists has been introduced. At the expenses of the Joint Stock Company young, perspective workers are trained in specialized higher educational institutions. MOSTOBUD’s shareholders steadily increase investments into innovative technologies and renovation of technopark. Since 2002 such investments have increased by more than 3 times.

There’s always a diligent, devoted and skilled person, who is responsible for every single success in the world of big business. In case of MOSTOBUD, we talk about the holder of the title of the Honoured Constructor of Ukraine, the Mikhail Grushevskiy Order “For Development of Ukraine” of the IV degree, the Cross of Honour “For Revival of Ukraine” of the II degree, the Order “Glory for Faithfulness to Motherland” of the II degree, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Order of St. Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles and many others.

Doesn’t it make any impression? Yes, it does. Let us introduce Professor Volodymyr Prodyvus, a person, who knows very well what means to fight for one’s dreams, to try hard and do one’s best to achieve everything one has ever dreamed of.

Step by step, appointment by appointment, Professor Volodymyr Prodyvus worked his way into the heart of business. He held executive positions in several companies. Some of them were established from almost nothing and later consolidated into the corporation, headed by Professor Prodyvus. Today these companies make up the backbone of the powerful business group Premier-Finance. He also became a shareholder of the largest Ukrainian bridge construction company – OJSC “MOSTOBUD and was elected the chairman of the company Supervisory Board. Due to his active participation, the former glory of Ukrainian bridge-contractors has been revived, fundamental renewal of the company equipment has been conducted, and a large-scale social program is being carried out embracing both workers and veterans of MOSTOBUD. Today the company has been entrusted to construct the most important strategic objects, among them large-scale, out-of-class bridge constructions in Zaporozhye, Podol Bridge crossing in Kiev, which is meant for simultaneous vehicle and underground train traffic. MOSTOBUD frequently receives proposals to build complicated constructions abroad.

These achievements would have been impossible without radical technical updates of the company conducted by the investors along with Professor Volodymyr Prodyvus. In the last two years they have increased financing for equipment and machinery renewal by three times. They have bought only the best and the most perspective equipment and mastered advanced technologies. At the same time, they care about the prestige of workers: bridge builders. Those in smaller provinces are not paid less than workers in the capital. Transparency and openness determine the new shareholder’s policy. According to this company policy salaries are paid out to employees in a fair and legal manner, so deductions into the budget and pension fund are made from each hryvnia earned. Realizing the most important state tasks concerning development of the country infrastructure, MOSTOBUD has become the most important and permanent tax payer. After all, more than five thousand people work in the company and earn high wages.