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Volodymyr Prodyvus: “only hard work can help overcome crisis” “Today, bridge builders are key inter-branch anti-crisis managers,” says Head of PJSC Mostobud Supervisory.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: “To live your life and enjoy it today” The financing of most of the constructions work in Ukraine has been frozen for over a year. Volodymyr Prodyvus head of supervisory board of Mostobud, the country’s largest bridge constructing company, has used the situation to find new markets for his venture

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Pragmatists winToday Mostobud’s web site is full of employment requests from specialists of other construction companies. No wonder – crisis and lay-offs are synonyms. Bridge construction companies did not avoid the crisis. But why do people apply Mostobud? The word leaked out that the leader of the national bridge construction industry Mostobud is forming crews to work in Turkmenistan. This information was proved by Head of Mostobud Supervisory Board Volodymyr Prodyvus

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“PromEkonomBank will avoid crisis. I have enough money to guarantee it…"    - Volodymyr Stepanovich, you have purchased a bank at the height of economic turmoil. Wasn’t it a hasty decision?
    Hasty decisions in business can ruin your business. This purchase of bank was planned and thus I create own financial instrument to develop my business. This will be a universal bank that will serve, among the others, my businesses and enterprises. Besides, stable companies and people whom I know and trust will also become clients of this bank. Such people are not adventurers and villains.
    - Haven’t you purchased a problem for yourself by purchasing 75% of the bank?
    I purchased this bank for myself. I always choose exceptionally reliable things, goods and businesses for myself. I have no habit of buying problems.

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This is a universal bank that will serve, among the others, my business and enterprises    Owner of one of the largest Ukrainian bridge construction companies MOSTOBUD Volodymyr Prodyvus has purchased PromEkonomBank
    The periodical publishes blitz-interview with Volodymyr Prodyvus and expert commentaries

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Concessionaire’s role What problems are builders of infrastructure objects facing now? How do they establish relations with partners? What hopes do they pin on the Law on concession for road building and maintenance? Interview with Head of MOSTOBUD OJSC Supervisory Council Volodymyr Prodyvus will answer these questions.

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Mostobud pulls off state orders at own expense. Government, will you back us, please? From June 1 construction of all bridges in Ukraine will be stopped unless financing is resumed and problems of bridge builders are solved.
    "Volodymyr Stepanovych, is it an ultimatum?" I ask Head of Mostobud OJSC Supervisory Council Volodymyr Prodyvus who has told me this news.
    "We are not politicians to make ultimatums. This industry sector is being brought to the point of utter exhaustion"

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Builders will get this country out of crisis    “We had two ways to choose: wait for money or look for money ourselves. We chose the latter. We have signed a series of agreements in Romania with the total price of about EUR 90 million. Now we clearly understand that the price could be higher. Last week we also signed memorandum of housing construction and development of infrastructure with the total price of USD 150 million with United Arab Emirates. Besides, we have agreement with Turkmenistan, having got serious building objects in Ashkhabad. We are also getting ready for bridge construction tender there. USD 500 million is a preliminary estimate of the project. We have been holding talks with a number of countries and companies.”
   Volodymyr Prodyvus, Supervisory Board Chairman of MOSTOBUD, which is the largest bridge construction company in Ukraine, is speaking on situation and prospects in building sector.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: “The government owes us uah 250 million”MOSTOBUD owner Volodymyr Prodyvus tells how builders manage to survive in crisis and why his company failed to become a general contractor in reconstruction of Olimpiysky National Sports Complex.

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Ukrainians will use price as their weaponBillionaire from the East is trying to succeed in Poland. His firm is bidding for a construction contract of Stadion Naradowy, Krasninski bridge and A1 Bridge.

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Hurrah! 500 hundred tons is no big problem!MOSTOBUD brought twenty heavily loaded trucks to check bearing capacity of a bridge opening the way to capital Harbor.

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Head of MOSTOBUD supervisory board Volodymyr Prodyvus: “We will be leaders for a long time”     Airplane is just another office for him. Flight Kyiv-Moscow takes 2 hours. Nothing special. Having taken off his jacket, Volodymyr Prodyvus is doing some paperwork which he is to discuss with Russian partners. Athletic and young Prodyvus is known in business circles of a man of his word. Building is his major business. Volodymyr has been chairing OJSC MOSTOBUD supervisory board for several years. In 2008 Mr. Prodyvus was included to the TOP 10 list of the richest people in Ukraine compiled by Focus magazine.
     They often speak of “people’s diplomacy”. Have you heard of business diplomacy? Viktor Korobkov is talking about it with Volodymyr Prodyvus while the airplane is taking them from one capital to another.

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«Mostobud»: new world-class bridges Open Joint Stock Company «Mostobud», a multitasking construction company, is the leader in bridge construction in Ukraine and the CIS. High-level capabilities of the company and 60 years of experience enable the company to build very complicated and modern bridges, sea and river wharfs and other constructions on water all over the world.
We talked to the Chairman of the OJSC «Mostobud» Supervisory Board professor Volodymyr Prodyvus.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: "THERE ARE NO FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN BUSINESS" The numerous talents of Volodymyr Prodyvus include one that is very special: He can be a friend. Volodymyr knows how to take care of friendship. He lives by these laws. He does not need to be asked for help - he knows himself when it is needed. Once, Volodya said: "Everything in this life has its value. Friendship is the most selfish of feelings, because when you devote your entire self to a friend, you expect the same from him."

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Where have you seen builders who pay for themselves? Let investor build good bridges and charge bridge toll. Anyway, Ukrainians will use this bridge, Chairman of MOSTOBUD OJSC Supervisory Board Volodymyr Prodyvus thinks. He believes that attraction of private investors to bridge construction is a business of future, as he is confident there will be enough people willing to pay UAH 5-7 to get from Troyeshchina to Kyiv downtown in 15 minutes driving on a quality highway.

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«Mostobud» is the leader in bridge construction in Ukraine and CISThe Ukrainian Open Joint Stock Company “Mostobud” is the leader in bridge construction in Ukraine and CIS. The head office is situated in Kiev. Recently the company has put into operation the new bridge over the Kiev Harbour, the first pilot object of the unique project of the out-of-class Podol bridge crossing over the Dnepr River.

The chairman of the Supervisory Board of ‘Mostobud”, Professor Volodymyr Prodyvus describes the history, objects, possibilities and development prospects of the company.

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«MOSTOBUD». While building success….. 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

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Owner of "Mostobud" company Volodymyr Prodyvus: "I AM A GRASPING PERSON AND WILLING TO LEARN" The name of the owner of "Mostobud" company appeared this year in ratings of the wealthiest people of Ukraine. At the same time, a family he grew up in was considered to be one of the poorest in his native village in Vinnitsya region.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: "THERE COMES A MOMENT WHEN YOUR BUSINESS BECOMES PART OF YOUR PRIVATE LIFE"It happens that that when you start a project, it can get such a hold of you that you keep thinking only about it. There are moments when you want to abandon it and forget about it - but you can't do that either. As they say, once the process has started, you can't stop it. And you've got a lot of responsibilities to bear - responsibilities before your partners, your subordinates, before what you've started after all. And you don't have the right nor possibility to step aside.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: "IF YOU HAVE BELIEVED YOU HAVE "NO PROBLEMS" MEANS YOU HAVE STOPPED"     Sometimes it seems that my vis-a-vis lives in two dimensions simultaneously: in the present, in 2007 and in the future, ten years ahead of the time…
      "Tea or coffee?" suddenly asks Volodymyr. I take my eyes from papers and wonder again and again where his tiredness disappears? He is lively, focused as if he hadn't had a longhaul flight. He is already dictating something to his assistant, giving tasks to his secretaries, making changes in his working schedule, and it seems as if he is planning another business trip.
     "Would you please check the afternoon flights to Germany", he says into the telephone loudspeaker. "Our partners want to see us", Prodyvus explains to me. "We have to fly".
     …I was about to write "The working day of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the joint-stock company "Mostobud" has begun." In fact it is has been going on since early morning.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: "BUILDING MEANS LOOKING FORWARD"What a businessman has no right to? He can't afford to live in the present. As business philosophy itself implies development.

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Business is a special "source of adrenaline" I asked all of a sudden: "Do the rich cry too?" He stopped the Bentley that he always drives himself. He waved his hand to the security guard: stay in the car. We stepped aside to the verge. I lit up a cigarette…
Meet our interlocutor - Volodymyr Prodyvus, a successful businessman, chairman of the Supervisory Board of the largest bridge-constructing company in Ukraine Mostobud, the head of the board of directors of Premier-finance Corporation and so on, and so forth, a millionaire coming from a barefoot childhood.

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Despite everything, and …in particular - that is why     Why would everyone like to emphasize "despite everything" while telling about a strong personality?
     Maybe the ability to keep one's head up "despite everything" is an anvil for character and will?

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: The stronger the foe, the more interesting the task During all his life, Prodyvus has surprisingly gained his upper hand: as a youngster - over boxing, becoming a master of sports and member of the USSR picked team, later - over medium business in his native Vinnitsa region, when he was reviving dying dairy and bread baking production. And today, not for the first time, he has won a victory in serious games of adult men: he builds bridges and roads, establishes an airline and arranges production of once popular healing water "Regina", constructs a recreational centre on the neglected Golden beach in Feodosiya and assists the revival of the former glory of Ukrainian boxing and judo.

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A millionaire's lot A weak person will never become a millionaire. At least for the reason that he will not be able to stand being interfered by someone. As soon as you have more money on your banking account than your friends have, you will not at once realize why your private world is separated with a painful line. On one side of each there are friends, sincerity and love, and on the other side - a belligerent envy, hatred and spite.

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Is it easy to be generous? "There are people in Vinnitsa, who could help us, but we turned exactly to Volodymyr Stepanovych. Why?.. He is a renowned person in the city. This is a person of a complicated lot. Such people understand others' misfortunes. I know he loves his mother very much, he is a good son. That is why I say mother's thanks to him because he is as he is", - a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Nataliya Botvinko.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: "INVESTOR SHOULD EARN" … Leaves of the automatic door slide apart quietly, from the depth of the study a spick-and-span young man appears. "This might be an assistant", I think and look for the study's owner with my eyes. - Volodymyr, - the young man offers his hand and smiles.
Frankly speaking, I have imagined a 43-year-old millionaire in a different way.

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Like a rapid flight of a gull - from one bank of the river to the other Problems... Problems… Any explanations were given… Everything changed when in 2003 powerful shareholders came to the company. The existing head of the Supervisory Board of the joint-stock company Volodymyr Prodyvus, as any investor, is sure: problems take place to be solved and not to explain that there is no solution.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: strict and generous The story of his life is uncommon. One may say that Volodymyr Prodyvus made himself as a personality, businessman and patron of art on his own.

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New prospects of Ukrainian bridge construction The chairperson of the Supervisory Board of the open joint-stock company Mostobud, president of Ukrmostobud Corporation Volodymyr Prodyvus is speaking.

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: "Bridge construction is an interesting and prospective business" When in 2003 we came to the joint-stock company as investors, the company was in quite dire straits. People had no work, no wages, the best specialists were leaving. This dims one's enthusiasm. Workers change their attitude to labour when they just obtain their wages, and do not earn. Please, underline this word expressly - EARN!

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Volodymyr Prodyvus: "It is in my plans to be free and wealthy and to help others in it" As any common person I have certain "eternal" life values. They might seem harsh, but they are masculine: not to be greedy, coward and treacherous. And I have actually never betrayed anybody or given up. I hope, nobody can blame me for greed.

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Who buids and who "burns" his bridges? Any large-scale construction has its opponents. Ukraine is not a desert, so newly-erected buildings will for sure infringe upon someone's rights and comfort.

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