String transport. "Is this a joke for April Fools' Day?" What is happening with SkyWay Yunitskiy

30.09.202027.05.2017

An engineer and inventor - as he calls himself - Anatoly Yunitskiy has been working on the SkyWay string transport project for 40 years. According to him, it will be an environmentally friendly and safe way to travel. However, the project of Yunitskiy has not yet reached the stage of entering the market. And the activities of his multi-billion dollar company have already been banned in a number of countries - the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. The founder himself is compared with the notorious Mavrodi - they collect money from people, and no one has built a unique transport, which should run at a height of 6-10 m above the ground in any weather and relief conditions. The cost of building a kilometer of such an overpass is $ 3 million, which corresponds to about 4 km of a four-lane road in Russia. Not a single state has yet dared to make such expenses (although SkyWay claims that they are building the first overpass in the UAE). Yunitskiy is confident that he will cope without government support. "Hi-tech" visited the homeland of the Belarusian innovator and tried to find out whether the string transport can really be built and when it will happen, as well as why people are investing their money in a dubious project despite state bans.

Investments and unfair competition

The idea of \u200b\u200bstring transport is more than 40 years old, but no one has yet entered the development stage. During this time, ordinary trains began to move at a speed of more than 600 km / h, and the aircraft capacity exceeded 805 people. What's your result?

Anatoly Yunitskiy: Trains began to move at this speed in more than 150 years of their development, and airplanes after 100 years of constant innovation. About 300 years have passed from the idea of \u200b\u200bthe car to the creation of the car. And the rockets, including three-stage ones, were presented back in the 17th century, 200 years before Tsiolkovsky. What we are doing now is a new industry. And, of course, not everything is done at the snap of your fingers. Our progress is noticeable, despite the fact that the state does not help at all.

Hightech checked the words of Anatoly Yunitskiy: the first self-propelled steam-powered vehicle was indeed presented in 1769. And the first drawings of a three-stage rocket were drawn up by the Polish general Kazimir Semenovich in 1650. True, he suggested using it not for space flights, but exclusively for military purposes.

However, it was not possible to find any noticeable progress in the field of string transport, except for the emergence of an eco-technopark on the territory of Belarus and exhibition samples located there.

By raising money through crowdfunding, you offer shares to medium and small investors. Which company shares do investors end up with and which company is the ultimate beneficiary of these funds?

Anatoly Yunitskiy:This is a false statement. SkyWay does not sell anything, it is done by investment funds, to which I have nothing to do. They are created to sell a specific product, not stock. Because the securities will be available only when the group of companies enters the stock market. And this is not crowdfunding, but crowdinvesting, because in the first case they give, and in the second - get share in the business. There are no violations and everything is absolutely legal. If these investment funds sell incorrectly - contact them, not me.

SkyWay is accused of unfair investment attraction and is compared to a financial pyramid. For example, funds were transferred to the accounts of the First SkyWay Invest Group Limited investment fund, registered in the UK. Also among the companies accepting funds are Global Transport Investments and Unisky Corporation. Both are registered offshore. In return for the invested funds, the investors were promised shares. However, experts were alarmed that the company, whose shares were allegedly acquired by investors, had the status of LTD, which is similar to a Russian LLC, and, accordingly, from a legal point of view, it could not have shares and transfer shares to anyone else. Moreover, one of the investors wrote that the receipt he received stated that he was not paying for shares, but for a training program.

Another point that caused people's distrust was the offer to participate in the affiliate program. People were offered to attract other investors, and in return they promised a part of the profit. Despite the fact that the network was limited to four levels, the scheme itself reminded users of the infamous pyramids, from where the comparison with Mavrodi came. The similarity was reinforced by Yunitskiy's loud promises of an imminent technological breakthrough and huge returns for investors. However, all the pilot projects that he built in different cities were soon closed, and things did not go further than the demonstration of pilot samples. But according to company representatives, they are already building a 15-kilometer road in the UAE. This information could not be verified.

48-seat double-rail unibus

In 2014, the SkyWay management developed a 15-stage investment plan. What do these stages involve and why do people bring their money to you?

Anatoly Yunitskiy: They don’t bring us, but invest in investment funds, and they buy out a share in the company. There is a company property, which was estimated in 2013 by independent appraisers at $ 400 billion. To implement the technology, you need to go through certain stages and enter the market with a finished product. Naturally, the financing itself falls on final stage... Because no one will buy our products without design, design of samples and certification. Now there are only two stages left until completion, although there are shifts in terms due to the fact that there were force majeure. One of them is the situation with Lithuania. The second force majeure happened due to the fact that the yellow press wrote badly about us, and no one analyzed it.

There are a lot of negative articles on the Internet about the activities of SkyWay, comparisons of the company with MMM, and you with Sergey Mavrodi. How do you feel about this?

Anatoly Yunitskiy: Naturally negative, because it is a lie and untrue. And here Mavrodi ?! I don’t collect money at all, but Mavrodi did. Our money is attracted by investment funds, which then go to the accounts of the group of companies from which we work. We now only have office space of more than 10 thousand square meters. The money is used to form the authorized capital of engineering companies, where more than a thousand qualified specialists are already working.

It’s not money that comes to me, it’s not to someone else, it’s coming to work, to build a technopark, put it into production, and own an office.

Anatoly Yunitskiy
- AuthoritiesLithuania , Estonia , Czech Republic , Latvia released an official statement that SkyWay activities are illegal on the territory of their countries. Why are government agencies struggling with such an ingenious project, in your opinion?
Anatoly Yunitskiy: First, it is not the government that makes such statements, but the bank. The National Bank of Lithuania wants to control the money, because we are financed by people from all over the world, and many do not like it. In Lithuania, unscrupulous competitors are behind this, I do not want to name anyone's names. This was all provoked by false accusations that were brought forward and crumbled in court. Besides, I was not an accused, but just a suspect.

"Hi-tech" notes that even in response to the previous question, Yunitskiy asserted: he personally does not collect any money and no one brings it to him. “I don’t collect money at all, but Mavrodi did. Our money is attracted by investment funds, which are then credited to the accounts of the group of companies from which we operate. " But when asked about banks in European countries, his point of view changed.

On the creation of a new industry and the ambition of engineers
- Have you already reached self-sufficiency?
Anatoly Yunitskiy: No, because we are still at the stage of entering the market and selling the project. This is a super complex product. Henry Ford made vehicles. But he did not build bridges, did not build roads, did not make gas stations or interchanges. We are making an industry where the vehicle is not the most important thing, we have already developed 11 models of different cars, and these are all electric vehicles that are more complex than Tesla. What is innovative about Tesla? The car and that's it. Just a steering wheel and five wheels. We changed the tank to batteries - as it was known 150 years ago.

Anatoly Yunitskiy
Your favorite answer to the question of how it works: "You don't need to know this, you need to know the user characteristics." Is it possible to find out the custom characteristics of already working prototypes?
Anatoly Yunitskiy:We do not sell iron, but transport services. And these services do not have such characteristics as cars - gears, wheel diameter, fit, and so on. There is safety, because no one will travel in dangerous vehicles. The service should be comfortable: if it is uncomfortable, who will use it? The service must be available. If the ticket is expensive, who will go? The service should be environmentally friendly, especially now, when there are environmental problems on the planet as a whole.
- Clear.

- Those same innovations. What technologies does SkyWay present and which of these actually exist?
String rail. To give strength, the SkyWay rail is reinforced with strained strings - bundles of stretched steel cables. The smoothness of traffic on such a rail is 120 times higher than that of car tires on the road. This reduces fuel costs and allows vehicles to move faster and safer, the company notes. Transport can use any type of fuel - gasoline and diesel engines, electricity, combined drive. If necessary, the engine can use methane, hydrogen, alcohol or natural gas, that is, environmentally friendly fuels. Also, communication, Internet and electricity lines can be located inside the rail. This will simplify communications to remote regions. String transport does not need to pave a road, which often leads to traffic disruption groundwater and waterlogging of the area. There is no obstacle to the migration of wild animals, there is no formation of earth mounds and excavations, there is no exhaust gas if you use electricity as an energy source. In winter it is not necessary to use an anti-icing coating.
Electric motor. One of the most important components of string transport is the electric motor, which is part of the SkyWay motor wheels. SkyWay vehicles use a synchronous traction electric motor built into a wheel, or a motor-wheel.

Unicar SkyWay
Housing. The body of the string transport has a special streamlined shape to reduce air resistance and increase travel speed. The aerodynamic drag coefficient of the SkyWay high-speed module is only 0.075. This is five times less than the Bugatti Veyron (for Bugatti this parameter is 0.35-0.38 - "High-tech"), one of the fastest production cars.
Overpass. Rails for SkyWay transport are located above the ground between the supports, forming an overpass. Rising above the ground (the height of the supports is 6–10 m), the string transport halves the aerodynamic resistance due to the fact that the rolling resistance is significantly reduced, - therefore, half the fuel is spent. Due to the use of continuous rails, which rest on supports, the SkyWay overpass is three times stronger than traditional bridges and elevated overpasses for cars or trains. A flyover above ground can be built in any terrain, from mountain ranges to desert and jungle. The cost of construction is $ 3 million per kilometer of a double-track overpass (or 200 million rubles, for comparison - the construction of 1 km of a four-lane road in Russia will cost 47.5 million rubles - "Hi-Tech").
Now on the territory of "EcoTechnoPark" five test tracks have been built, along which unicars move. The first, 1 km long, has a rigid continuous track structure; it is planned to use it for high-speed intercity transportation. A low track with a semi-rigid structure is intended for running light wagons, a section with a flexible structure for transportation in areas with difficult terrain, and a cargo module. The fifth type of track is supposed to be built in the UAE.

State support
Why did you reproduce your company in Belarus, and not in Russia - in St. Petersburg, Bryansk or other cities, after all, Russia does not end at the production facility you have closed in the Moscow Region Lakes.
Anatoly Yunitskiy: I am Belarusian, I was born and raised in this country. And I always planned to make string transport technology here. But there was not much support in Belarus. Although the president (Alexander Lukashenko - "Hi-Tech") supported me at one time, but when I began to walk around the offices, the ministry said that "this is no longer necessary and in general we are very tired of you." I moved to Moscow, lived there at the station for six months. Then I received support from Gazprom and through them I received a grant from the UN for the use of string transport, then I received a second grant, and then Alexander Ivanovich Lebed became my partner. I invested money from my personal fund to build the first test site in the Lakes. But there was no support in Russia either. In addition, my partner, who was also an investor, died tragically. Funding has stopped.

In 2001, a test site was built in the city of Ozyory, Moscow Region, using SkyWay technology. The customer of the project was the administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, headed by the governor Alexander Lebed. The construction was completed in record time, and already nine months later, in October 2001, the first tests were passed. A ZIL-131 car was used as a vehicle, the wheels of which were specially converted for string rails. The tests have confirmed the correctness of the technical solutions. Also, the technologies of service maintenance and road repair were worked out. However, the project did not receive further development, and soon the landfill was closed.

In 2009, I met with the President of Russia (then this position was held by Dmitry Medvedev - "Hightech"). And when the governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergei Morozov said that we have an innovation - "string transport", officials at the State Council sat and grinned. A week after the meeting, even after the president's support, the first floor of our office was demolished. This was done by people in uniform. Almost all of my Russian partners were bankrupt in order to take everything later for ourselves. And when they hinted to me that a criminal case would soon be opened against me, although I always worked absolutely legally, I left for Lithuania.

Indeed, in November 2009, at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council, the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergei Morozov made a speech about his desire to develop innovative transport in the region. Those present were incredulous, but the project was unexpectedly supported by President Dmitry Medvedev: “I looked, here our colleagues, representing the largest Russian carriers, smiled so fist, but in vain: sometimes you need to be able to dream.” Then talk began that the developers have support in the highest echelons of power.
Two days later, an investment agreement was concluded between the government of the Ulyanovsk region and Yunitskiy String Transport LLC, according to which the construction of a testing ground and a school for training specialists was to begin on the territory of the region. The track itself was supposed to appear in 2012. But the matter did not come to implementation - already at the beginning of 2011 the OJSC was liquidated. However, neither the developers nor the head of the region abandoned the idea of \u200b\u200bcooperation. In 2017 conversations started on the resumption of the project, but the matter has not yet gone beyond negotiations.

Alexander Lukashenko closely monitors commercial activities in his country. Do you have any associated difficulties or, on the contrary, benefits, advantages?
Anatoly Yunitskiy: No, we do not need perks and benefits. Now even the president's visit is being prepared here. When people ask me how to help, I say: help is that you will not interfere. It is most important. We do not need benefits. We pay taxes. We have already paid more than $ 10 million in taxes, if not 20 million.
Nadezhda Kosareva (Anatoly Yunitskiy's wife):Alexander Grigorievich set the task for the salary in the country to exceed $ 500. With us, gardeners, watchmen, people who are engaged in maintenance receive $ 500, and engineers or specialists in the area that we are developing receive many times more. There are salaries of $ 10,000. There are those whose salaries are higher than ours. We value the talents of engineers.

Three-piece unicar
Going East
You are doing string technology in the UAE. Are the roads there in quality different from Belarusian and Russian?
Anatoly Yunitskiy: We strive for our technologies to be implemented anywhere in the world. If we compare the conditions in Belarus and the Emirates, our problem is that the soil crawls through, in winter there are severe frosts and materials behave badly, but they do it the other way around. It also has its bad sides, and, naturally, it is necessary to design taking into account the difficulties: there are a lot of salts in the air, and they corrode metal. Here in winter it is covered with snow, and in theirs it is covered with sand. Removing sand is no less problematic than ours - snow. Therefore, the difficulties that are there - sand, heat, salt - we must overcome them, certify them, and then they will already buy. We are doing this work and are confidently moving forward. We will soon sign contracts for real projects.

In July 2018, two delegations from the UAE visited EcoTechnoPark SkyWay. Yunitskiy conducted an excursion for them, demonstrated pilot samples of transport and arranged a test drive. After that, it became known that on the territory of the UAE, the designer was allocated land for the implementation and subsequent implementation of string transport. It was also announced that the government has allocated resources to create test sites. It was assumed that construction will begin in September 2018. To date, there is no exact information at what stage the project is, but, according to Yunitskiy, the technology is included in the infrastructure development plan of Dubai.

Why are you targeting the Middle East specifically? Are there any government collaborations connected with this, or is it just a desire?
Anatoly Yunitskiy:When I visited the Emirates for the first time in 1991, there were huts, there were no skyscrapers, but now there are. Only a few years have passed. And take Belarus, for example. During this time, it has changed, of course, but not significantly. There, changes have just taken place due to the fact that they are open to innovations and want to be the first in the world. And, naturally, they are looking for innovation. They accept, not reject. They behave differently. Therefore, the Emirates are open to innovation, and we are glad that we have come to this amazing country. I can even quote such words - one high-ranking official in the spring of this year at one of the forums where we exhibited our exposition, took my hand and, looking into my eyes, said: "We are happy that you came to us to create our house."
At the same time, there are unscrupulous competitors who actively harm us, write that we are swindlers, scammers, figure it out, refuse. Then they began to write obscenely on Instagram to the sheikh. That is, how do you have to hate to do it? And you think it's just being discussed by them? When you look at their pages, they are only dedicated to SkyWay. They have nothing to do?

Passenger station
In conclusion, I would like to cite another quote from the media: "I say - you don't need to fly anywhere, you need to live on Earth according to the laws of God." Jesus was content with a donkey, so why do we need string technology?
Anatoly Yunitskiy:I didn't say that, but okay. They say there is a god who rules the world. I say - God rules the world according to the laws of physics. There are many laws of physics. There would be no one law - gravity. Imagine that mass would not have gravity. Then the hydrogen would not collect in the sun. That stuff in space would not have collected into a planet called Earth. We wouldn't be there. Who created this and who controls the physics? Therefore, in fact, God is physics. So let's love the laws of physics.

Anatoly Yunitskiy was born in 1949 in the city of Komarin, Belarus. At the age of 13, he and his parents moved to the Kazakh SSR, where he lived 200 km from the Baikonur cosmodrome. As a teenager, Anatoly became seriously interested in astronautics. He independently constructed complex models of operating spacecraft from scrap materials, including a three-stage rocket model. Moreover, the model even worked on a powder charge.
After leaving school, the future inventor worked as a plumber, and then as an employee on a geological expedition near Baikonur. A year later, he successfully passed the exams at the industrial institute, then transferred to the newly opened Civil Engineering Institute in Tyumen. But Yunitskiy finished his studies already at home - at the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute at the road traffic faculty. The next 20 years he devoted to the study of transport systems and problems of space exploration.

I have been fond of rockets since childhood, when Elon Musk was definitely not there. He himself made rockets out of paper, and when one day we watched a film, we saw that an asterisk flew past the screen. I realized that a rocket had started. And when we left the cinema, it started raining, all three of us walked knee-deep in water, I connected these two facts - and I was a schoolboy. Rocket launch and rain shower 200 km away. Then he began to understand that the rocket is very dangerous. One rocket launch makes a hole in the ozone layer the size of a schoolbag. 100 rocket launches per year - the ozone layer begins to wear off, and the ozone layer protects from ultraviolet radiation, and if it is not there, we will simply all die.
And when they tell me that there is Elon Musk with the idea of \u200b\u200bflying to Mars, I say that this is bullshit - to fly to Mars. It's a billion dollar one-way ticket to die there without food, water, or air. And while you are flying, radiation will kill you. And for what? To die there? A funeral too expensive. On Earth, the biosphere has been created for billions of years. Physics did it. And there a person must create an atmosphere, he will never create it. Where can I get the resources? Why, when look at the beauty around here. Let's love it. There is room for 24 billion people on Earth. And there is enough food, and air, and water, everything is enough. We will kill ourselves, and there is only one way out - to give new spaces and new resources. Get out into space faster and get resources in space. And live on Earth.

Creating string transport, I and the team I lead thought about its future passengers, as well as about the problems of transport communications of the third millennium.

Super-cheap, environmentally friendly and safe transport, capable of delivering a passenger from Moscow to St. Petersburg for 250 rubles and in two hours with railway facilities and almost at an air speed. Fantasy? No more than the appearance of the personal computer about 40 years ago. In which even the developers themselves did not believe. They were planning to sell less than 10 computers a year.

There is an opinion, especially in high bureaucratic offices, that the development of a new marketable product costs nothing, or almost nothing. It is believed that the main thing is to organize its production. Billions of dollars have been invested in low-efficiency magnetic suspension trains, in unprofitable high-speed railways, which never appeared in the USSR or Russia. However, there was not even a dollar for the breakthrough transport technology.

In an innovative market product, the most difficult, most costly and most valuable part is development. The development of the Airbus A-380 lasted about 20 years and cost 20 billion euros. In the history of aviation, this Airbus is possibly the 1001st version of a particular aircraft. The development of the 1001st version of a passenger car cost one of the world's automotive companies hundreds of millions, and possibly billions of dollars.

String transport is not only a fundamentally new rolling stock, but also a fundamentally new track structure and a fundamentally new infrastructure, created for the first time. It took decades of hard work by a large number of highly qualified specialists. All major elements of the system have been optimized. We have developed our own standards in the structural part, technology, materials science, aerodynamics, ergonomics. A complex of prospecting, research and development work has been completed. Necessary experiments and tests have been carried out. Unique results have been obtained that have no analogues in the world. Dozens of inventions and more than a hundred patentable know-how have been created. A test site has been built. Various types of passenger and cargo rail vehicles, string-rails, intermediate and anchor supports, stations and train stations have been designed. A technology has been developed for their large-scale construction.

Design, build and commission any UST track in any country of the world - low and high speed, passenger and freight, urban and intercity, - made according to any of the standards: micro, mini, macro, freight or gravity, - the simplest task for us. We and our partners are fully prepared for this. For this we need customers, investors, a strategic partner.

The high level of safety of our "second level" rail transport will help prevent those terrible transport disasters that are unnoticed today in the world, claiming more than a million human lives annually, while crippling tens of millions of people along the way. The string system, built for the benefit of people, will make our world more cozy, comfortable, clean, communicative and safe.

We do not predict the future. We will build it together with you.

Unibus U-361 in the city at high altitude

Future on strings

Sergei Sibiryakov is from the breed of energetic new people who say: Russia should not stupidly catch up with world leaders who have gone into the lead. We won't catch up anyway. No - you need a jump that will immediately lead us to the head of the world race. It is necessary to ride the crest of the wave - the waves of global changes, to catch the wind of the main trends in the sails. The old era of clumsy factory monsters is dying, it is being replaced by a completely different world. This means that there is no need to cling to doomed, outdated technologies. Not! We need to boldly develop the technologies of the future, not being embarrassed by the fact that they are not yet available anywhere in the world. This is a strategy of a lightning-fast miracle of outstripping modernization.

We must use what was considered our curse - the vast expanses of our native country and its role as a "world refrigerator". I am not kidding! We were pushed to this conclusion by studying the development of technology, science and, in general, world trends, - Sergei chops the air with his hand. - What is the main problem of the planet today? Transport, communications! The European and Asian markets are locked. Cargoes from America to Europe have to be dragged by sea for 20-30 days, and there is no need to talk about the connection between Europe and Asia. Of course, ships are the cheapest form of transportation, but their slowness means freezing huge funds, reducing the speed of business. Aviation is unable to replace shipping: it is too expensive. Railway transport? Also does not pull. For example, the railways of Russia are not designed for high speeds, and there is no need to talk about their condition and the level of our service. It has long been talked about the need for the London-Tokyo route through our open spaces. But it is practically impossible to build railways north of Lake Baikal: permafrost, snow drifts, "floating" soils. Northern Sea Route? Heavy and slow. A road with a bridge over the Bering Strait? Utopia. Huge costs.

And, nevertheless, it is Russia, lying between Europe, America and Asia, that can become the planet's transport bridge.

It is the Russians who have a completely real, and at the same time almost fantastic technology that no one else in the world has - Anatoly Yunitskiy's string transport. It has already been tested in the Moscow Region Lakes and brought to the stage of industrial implementation.

Imagine a road of several tightly stretched cables, enclosed in two parallel small diameter pipes. The ropes are very strong, tense, like strings. They lie on powerful anchor supports, spaced one and a half kilometers from one another. It doesn't matter if the almost impossible happens, and one of these masts collapses - the tightly stretched strings will not sag. They have a double safety factor. And this has already been tested at an experimental stand in the Moscow Region Lakes.

And along these strings, streamlined, very beautiful cars on steel wheels are racing at a speed of 300-500 kilometers per hour. They are like electrons rushing through wires. These airplanes are also similar to the most radiant dreams of Ivan Efremov, to pictures from science fiction novels of our childhood. They have an impulse, the technical aesthetics of the 1930s-1950s, and the outlines of the hulls of aircrafts sometimes painfully resemble the outlines of the Joseph Stalin steam locomotive.

There are no obstacles to these roads in the form of snow blockages, permafrost, rivers or mountains. There is no problem of freezing of the strings - no ice sticks on the track along which modules with steel wheels race. These highways can be laid anywhere. Just a couple of hours - and you get from Moscow directly to Sochi, having paid at most twenty dollars for a ticket. And if you want, cargo aircrafts will rush along the strings, delivering goods to addressees in a matter of hours. During the time a metro passenger spends on travel from one end of the city to the other, a passenger of an auto-plane travels hundreds of kilometers. At the same time, a kilometer of such a road is half the price of a kilometer of an ordinary "piece of iron" with its snail's pace. String roads are cheap, economical, safe and environmentally friendly. And you can pull them even through the tundra with its permafrost, even through the taiga, even through the mountains and deserts, and in record time. The most attractive thing about this system is that it can be made from elements already created in Russia, at already existing plants and factories. The beauty of the system lies in the fact that it is made up of parts that have long been debugged and mastered in production, which together create something unprecedented and qualitatively new.

These routes can penetrate the entire space of the country, opening up the still impassable North for development, stretching the "strings" to the south, west and east. That is, we are able to very cheaply connect London with Tokyo and New York, Central Europe with Southeast Asia and India. At the same time, goods can be transferred along these routes in hours, ten times faster than by sea, by cars or ships. It's a dream: to get from New York to London in 18 hours with a transfer price of less than one hundred dollars per ton of cargo! A standard 20-foot container will cost $ 1,500.

We are in literally compressing the world, unlocking previously locked markets. What does this mean for Russia? Huge revenues from the transit of goods - this time. The load of our seemingly uncompetitive industry is two. After all, we get a unique chance - for tens of years to load with orders long-built enterprises with existing equipment: metallurgical, concrete, automobile and aviation. We, without retraining workers and using already trained personnel, give them decent wages for a long time. Do you need to arrange the military from the disbanded units or miners from the closing mines? Here you are. The problem for metal and concrete producers is removed. With the collapse of the USSR, they lost demand inside the country, and they were allowed to enter the foreign market with a fight, punished according to the rules of the WTO. And then a huge field of orders opens up for them! Our industry can produce at least millions of cars for traveling on string roads, because technical requirements to them is much lower than to modern cars. They are very simple to make, and we still make MiGi and Su. This is the point of all that is, that the aerodynamic body on a car suspension with a diesel or an electric motor. And then the vast distances of the country turn into a blessing, into a source of profits. Instead of disintegrating, Russia is heading into the future, offering the world an unprecedented service and turning into a global transport hub. And no one can take our place in the world economy. And this monopoly is guaranteed to us for tens of years, if not for a century! One transit of goods between Asia, Europe and America will become a gold mine for Russia.

By developing a network of unusual transport, we link the lands of not only the Russian Federation, but also the former USSR with mutual benefit. Our budget is growing by leaps and bounds, solving many problems at once - social, scientific and military. The grid of new routes will lay on the vast tundra expanses of Siberia, opening them up for development. Those lands will become accessible where today it is possible to move only on "winter roads" or by helicopter. "Metabolism" in the economy will accelerate dramatically. Here, in terms of the resource plan, the country will enter a completely new round ...

This article reflects my opinionbased on analysis, knowledge and observation, as well as on the ability to hear your heart.

If you have not yet been campaigned to become an investor in a new String Transport project, you lucky... You started reading this article on time.

For more than a month I have been following the campaigns of this project, promises and surprised great loyalty and willingness with which people invest their money in this project.

The nature of man is amazing.

When the first MMM-type pyramids appeared in Russia, people still did not have the necessary knowledge to understand what's what. As a result, there are thousands of depositors who were left with nothing.

A little more than 10 years have passed, we have the Internet at our service, and again MMM in a new format. Mavrodi knows the psychology of the Russian person very well - that's why he didn't even change the name: MMM-2011, and this year MMM-2014.

I do not know how to explain it…

First signal, which alerted me in the String Transport investment system - referral payments for the involved participants. In simple terms, he brought clients who bought shares, made money. Thus, a pyramid is created in which those who sit at the top earn the most.

Something I don’t remember that Sberbank shares were sold according to a similar scheme.

Second signal

An interesting point that I found on the site of Yunitskiy himself is that he allegedly turned to investors and they refused him.

At the same time, it is curious to follow the business of billionaire Richard Branson, who is investing millions of dollars in eco-startups aimed at improving the ecology of the planet. Maybe Yunitskiy asked the wrong ones ...

Just before writing this article, I read the Forbes Internet resource about investment clubs ... It was about large Russian investors who are investing millions of rubles in the development of start-ups in Russia. At the same time, in the Forbes itself, in the search, I did not find a single mention of string transport or Yunitskiy itself. And I personally trust the Forbes resource.

Believe me, if string transport were really such a profitable project, an investment fund would have taken it under its wing long ago.

Third signal

Registration in the UK. Everything is simple here - pyramids and dubious companies register their activities offshore in order to evade taxes, litigation, and legal bureaucracy. Registration costs several thousand dollars. In case of problems with payments, you are unlikely to go to England to figure out who is right and who is wrong.

Fourth signal

On the website of the SkyWay String Transport itself, which is very beautifully made (you can see where the investors' money goes), numerous letters and all sorts of supposedly social proofs are displayed, the purpose of which is to inspire confidence among gullible "investors".

This principle is well discussed in Cialdini's book The Psychology of Influence. The principle is simple - where everything is, there I go (why think).

Look at this piece of paper that will be given to you in exchange for real money. You know, I can also give you a piece of paper with seals in exchange for money, would you like?

For comparison, the stock of MMM shares (looks more serious):

Fifth signal

When I typed "string transport" in a search engine, I could not help but hide a smile when I read the reviews and recommendations of "real, professional investors."

Now, it seems to me, everyone imagines himself an investor guru, having invested a hundred bucks in dozens of pyramids and forex clubs, while proudly declaring that "I am an investor", but in fact, nervously biting his nails, prays that the next company does not fall apart in the next month.

Making money for these people is simple - referral links. By hiring other simpletons who believe high percentage stories, they earn their percentage of other people 's money invested.

Here's an example from the official site. Out of 8 points, I did not see a single one in essence - solid water and assumptions.

The main principle of an investor is knowledge and direct management of their capital.

And again the question: who do you trust? These unknown breeders?

Sixth signal

The principle of the crowd.

Remember - A REAL INVESTOR ALWAYS GOES AGAINST THE CROWD.

Against the crowd, this means that you can be lured as you like, telling tales of a beautiful future, but the more people are involved in the process, the lower the likelihood of the result and the higher the likelihood of the collapse of this pyramid.

That is why it is worth listening to the advice of billionaires such as Donald Trump and Warren Buffett, and not those scammers who are agitating to buy shares.

I remember in one of the books Donald Trump wrote how he bought up shares in a hotel chain. At the time of the purchase, the business from the company (I do not remember the name, maybe Holiday In) were not very good, and Donald decided to buy shares for several million dollars.

After the purchase, everyone started to fuss, especially the management of the hotel chain. They decided that Trump wanted to buy out the entire network, and began to actively buy up their own shares on the market. As a result, the share price rose sharply, and Donald sold every one, earning several million more.

Do you consider yourself Warren Buffet too?

Seventh signal.

Reality. If you remove the beautiful drawn videos, website, pictures of a wonderful future ... what is behind all this? Where can you go and what to touch? Where do the millions of rubles of investors go?

Take a company example Tesla motorswhich manufactures electric cars. The company has existed since 2003 and in 2013 the turnover was still negative.

Among the company's investors are the founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin, one of the founders of the PayPal payment system Elon Musk and Jeffrey Skoll, the founder and president of eBay, Daimler AG. Elon Musk invested the most of his own funds - $ 7.5 million - earned from the sale of his company.

My conclusion.

If Yunitskiy really wanted to find investors, he would definitely find them. But it is much easier to launch a pyramid and collect money from ordinary people who do not know how to invest, but are ready to give money for beautiful fairy tales.

Turn on your brain!

Time will put everything in its place.

P.S.

Before commenting on and punching yourself in the chest - they say I know better, I believe beautiful tales and fairy tales about the transport of the future - write to me, what is your investment experience, how much you have earned and lost in investments.

If in addition to this company of experience ZERO, then do not bother to write a comment, I will delete it anyway 🙂

P.S.S.

Revised for 2016. Billionaire Elon Musk has already set up his new vehicle development company. In just 1 year, there are already test samples in the US. But for some reason the billionaire did not invite you to buy shares ...

String transport, also known under the SkyWay brand, is the author's development of the Belarusian Anatoly Yunitskiy. The scientist is sure that innovative systems will become a worthy alternative to existing transport solutions due to their main qualities: safety, efficiency and speed of movement. We visited the design bureaus, visited the test base and appreciated the developments of the engineering company "String Technologies". It is she who is engaged in the practical implementation of the ideas of Anatoly Yunitskiy.

From engineering tradition to engineering innovation

The main office of "String Technologies" occupies a four-story building, which is based in the Traktorozavodsky village. In the neighborhood is the plant itself, the recreation center and sports complex of the enterprise, the stadium "Traktor". Many of Yunitskiy's team used to work for Belarusian giants, and now they are developing a new direction, thereby observing continuity in the Belarusian mechanical engineering school. In addition to the administration, "String Technologies" has about forty different design bureaus here.

“This is our design department, it includes ten design bureaus,” says Marina Tretyak, deputy general director of SkyWay Technologies Co. - Here, specialists design such elements of SkyWay complexes as metal and concrete structures, stations, train stations, anchor supports - everything connected with our transport infrastructure. "

On one of the monitors, we are shown a complex that the company is building in the United Arab Emirates.

The structure of the company includes three more design bureaus that are engaged in the development of infrastructure equipment:

“The task of our divisions is to develop and optimize such units as turnouts, turning sections, loading and unloading terminals for freight transport, as well as various depots with technological equipment,” say the engineers.

Nearby - the management of track infrastructure and an architectural bureau. In the next office, the design and architecture department is involved in 3D visualization and modeling, as well as technical and graphic design. The team is quite young - according to Yunitskiy, the average age of engineers is 35 years.

“All employees of design bureaus work exclusively with licensed and state-of-the-art software,” says Yunitskiy. “Not so long ago, we started using an advanced digital platform from the French company Dassault Systemes. It allows employees working within the same project to promptly make the necessary changes to the project documentation, and also ensures high quality standards for the products manufactured by the company. We are one of the first companies in the country to operate in Industry 4.0 logic. Innovative solutions require innovative means for their implementation. "

Unibuses are assembled in Minsk

We are moving to a production workshop. It is located in the industrial area in Shabany. Here we met Alexander Sinkevich - he was the technical manager of a number of large projects related to the creation of the most powerful cars for road-ring races and trial, customization of equipment. For the Belarusian automotive engineering, he is a significant figure. Now Sinkevich is the head of a special design and technological bureau with pilot production of "String Technologies". Alexander gave a tour of the workshop. Now work is in full swing here: they assemble electric motors and all electrical filling, make prototypes of transport modules of various versions and purposes. They are working on unibuses, unicars, uniwinds. A new production building is being built nearby, where the SKD assembly of transport modules, which will be supplied abroad, is planned.

Harmony of nature and technology

To demonstrate its samples, the String Technologies company has built a test site in Maryina Gorka. Together with Yunitskiy we go there.

“This place is called EcoTechnoPark,” says Yunitskiy. - Previously, there was a tank training ground with earth soaked with petroleum products pitted with caterpillars, but now it is a garden city! In addition to the fact that here we test the transport we create, we want to demonstrate the possibility of a harmonious neighborhood of wildlife and transport technologies. In the near future, people must learn not only to move, but also to live differently in general. Here we show that this is possible. Our vehicles are environmentally friendly and run on electric energy. The land under the roads can be used for farming. Soil hydrology and animal migration routes are not disturbed. Our roads are as safe as possible for nature and humans. There can be no collisions and the car will not hit a pedestrian. All movement is above the ground, at the second level, as we say. "

"We are constantly working on the design of our vehicles ..."

But the most interesting thing at the test site is the test tracks for Yunitskiy's transport. A total of five such roads have been built here. Another one is under construction. All tracks have different designs, they are all designed for a different type of transport. It is here that SkyWay rolling stock is tested.

The first is a SkyWay track with a rigid continuous track structure - in other words, a farm. This type of route can be used to organize both urban and intercity high-speed freight and passenger traffic. The design of the track structure allows the movement of rolling stock simultaneously along the lower and upper belts of the trusses. The length of the track is 1 kilometer, and the distance between spans is 100 meters. According to Yunitskiy, in the future, transport along such a route will be able to accelerate to a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.

“That is, the road, for example, from Minsk to Moscow will take only an hour and a half,” Yunitskiy gives an example. "And the ticket price can be as little as $ 15."

The peculiarity of the farm track is that transport modules can travel both over farms and under them. It starts with an anchor support, which is aligned with the station building. There is also a small SkyWay technology museum.

Nearby is the lowest track. It is an 830-meter lightweight monorail track with a semi-rigid track structure.

“It can be used to run light railcars weighing up to 3 tons,” explains Yunitskiy. - Between the supports - 75 meters, the estimated speed of movement on a highway of this type - up to 150 km / h.

Another type of string roads is a section with a flexible track structure. It is a super-light track structure designed for the movement of freight and passenger transport.

“This type of track structure has all the advantages of a monorail with less material consumption and greater durability,” explains Yunitskiy. "It allows you to overcome water obstacles and organize cargo and passenger transportation in terrain with difficult terrain."

It was on this type of ropeway that we decided to ride. Together with Yunitskiy we sit in a six-seater unicar. The doors close automatically and the vehicle starts moving.

“It's like the plane of the Wright brothers - just the first modification,” Yunitskiy explains on the way. “We are constantly working on the design of our vehicles, optimizing their individual components and systems, striving to make them even better and more efficient.”

Feels like a car. In fact, this is an electric car, only on steel wheels. It moves along the track structure rather smoothly and almost silently. Only the operation of the climate control system in the cabin is audible.

The fourth type of track is located behind the garden - a freight road. It is planned that two types of transport can ride on it. The first is a unitruck. This is a cargo module, which is created on the basis of suspended urban passenger unibuses, which makes it possible to transport goods, including via SkyWay passenger lines. Speed \u200b\u200b- up to 150 km / h. The second one is called unitrans - it is such a closed conveyor on wheel pairs with the ability to turn in a horizontal plane. Allows for fast and inexpensive transportation of bulk cargo.

“I think this type of transport will be indispensable in remote and hard-to-reach places, in particular, when developing a mineral deposit,” Yunitskiy said.

The fifth track is being built to a new standard with which Yunitskiy's company will work in the UAE. It will be used to transport sea containers.

“The track will change, the loads will change,” explains Yunitskiy. - The machine with the container will weigh about 50 tons. Transport will be both mounted and suspended - that is, it will travel both from above and from the bottom of the farm ”.

The meeting with the inventor is coming to an end. For all the time spent with this extraordinary person, the impression was that he managed to almost impossible - to create a new transport technology from scratch. And not just to bring it to life, but to demonstrate its potential. Who knows, perhaps a fast, environmentally friendly and comfortable SkyWay will soon replace traditional public transport, which does not have these advantages? Already, they are betting on it in the UAE, where this technology has already been included in the infrastructure development plan of Dubai.

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About the technology of "Yunitskiy String Transport"

SkyWay - an overhead highly efficient transport technology that has no analogues in the world. These are speed, safety, availability, economy and respect for environment.

SkyWay - a sustainable foundation for a new generation of information, energy and transport networks. It is based on all the elements that have passed the approbation.

SkyWay is:

speed - up to 500 km / h;
span length - from 30-50m. up to 2 km;
support height - 6-10m. and more;
the maximum slope of the path is 15% or more;
fuel consumption (diesel) - up to 0.7-0.9 l / 100 pass. per km .;
cost from 2-3 million USD / km;

The location of the track structure above the ground provides a high level of safety

SkyWay is a rail transport overpass installed on supports for moving special rolling stock equipped with an anti-derailment system.
A SkyWay rail vehicle - a unibus - is a type of a conventional vehicle mounted on steel wheels. Like a traditional car, it can be driven by a diesel engine, a gasoline engine, a turbine, an electric motor, or a combination drive.
If necessary, the engine can run on natural gas, methane, hydrogen, alcohol and other environmentally friendly fuels.

In addition, it is possible to electrify a rail vehicle using an external source of electrical energy (such as a trolleybus, tram or metro). An autonomous energy source can also be used - batteries installed on board, energy storage units of a capacitor, molecular or other type, fuel batteries, etc.
The basis of the track structure is made up of continuous string rails prestressed by tension or continuous load-bearing truss-string structure (heavy and multifunctional transport system).

Rail-string mounted SkyWay

1.rail head
2.string (a bundle of steel wires)
3.element for fastening the string to the rail body
4.fill (special concrete)
5.rail body

The string-rail track structure has no joints and expansion (expansion) seams and is characterized by ideal straightness and smooth bends, which ensures the achievement of the highest performance indicators of the transport system - high travel speeds, minimum shock loads, low energy consumption.

Thanks to the anchor (after 2-3 km. And more) and intermediate (after 40-60 m. And more) supports, the track structure is always located above the earth's surface. The location of the track structure above the ground is of fundamental importance for reducing the cost of construction, for respecting the environment, as well as for ensuring the very high level safety in comparison with all other modes of transport.

SkyWay advantages

Savings per 1 km of track in comparison with other modes of transport:

steel: up to 500-700 tons compared to high-speed monorail and magnetic levitation train;
reinforced concrete: up to 15-20 thousand cubic meters in comparison with a high-speed railway overpass;
land acquisition: up to 3-5 hectares in comparison with railways and highways;
the volume of earthworks: a decrease of 20-25 thousand cubic meters or more in comparison with the embankments of railways and highways.

Construction cost (%):

SkyWay 100%

road transport 400%monorail 1200%

1200

magnetic suspension train 1800%

1800

High profitability

less - 5-7 times or more - financial costs for construction and operation in comparison with other types of off-street transport: railway and tram overpass, magnetic levitation train and monorail, as well as underground and surface metro;
low cost of transportation and quick payback of the project - within 3-5 years.

Low cost of components due to the use of traditional materials, engineering units and assemblies.

Low operating costs:

"All-weather";
high speed of movement;
automatic control system;
low fuel (energy) consumption for movement;
"Sparsely populated" system service.

Low depreciation charges:

long service life of the track structure, supports, rolling stock and infrastructure;
low cost of the transport system, rolling stock and infrastructure.

Operating costs (%):

SkyWay 100%

rail transport 200%road transport 1200%

1200

monorail 1800%

1800

magnetic suspension train 3000%

3000

The data are based on the research materials of the Solomenko Institute of Transport Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in% ratio of the integral indicator by mode of transport

Factors providing high comfort of passenger transportation:

high evenness of the track and low noise when driving;
low acceleration and deceleration of rolling stock due to the absence of traffic hindrances;
lack of "traffic jams";

automated control system and the absence of dangerous and unreliable transport junctions;
short waiting and travel time, as well as the possibility of a door-to-door trip using individual transport modules.

Comfort (%):

SkyWay 100%

100%

road transport 20%monorail 50%

The data are based on the research materials of the Solomenko Institute of Transport Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in% ratio of the integral indicator by mode of transport

Factors providing high traffic safety:

avoidance of collision with ground vehicles, by humans, animals due to the placement of the track structure above the ground on supports;
high stability of the rolling stock due to anti-derailment system and independent suspension of each wheel;
reduction of accidents due to the absence of the possibility of erosion of the foundations of buried supports by grant and surface waters;
tenfold safety factor of the track structure and high resistance of the transport system to floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Transport safety (%):

SkyWay 100%

100%

rail transport 50%road transport 1%monorail 90%magnetic suspension train 70%

The data are based on the research materials of the Solomenko Institute of Transport Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in% ratio of the integral indicator by mode of transport

Factors ensuring the reduction of total environmental pollution:

absence of dusty and environmentally hazardous earth embankments and excavations;
lack of obstacles to the migration of animals;
lack of waterlogging of the soil due to the absence of obstacles to the movement of groundwater;
low specific fuel consumption for the movement of passengers and goods;
absence of high electric voltages, high currents, and strong electromagnetic fields when using electric traction;
no exhaust gases, de-icing salts and tire products, as well as asphalt pavement.

Environmental friendliness (%):

SkyWay 100%

100%

rail transport 50%road transport 20%monorail 50%magnetic suspension train 80%

The data are based on the research materials of the Solomenko Institute of Transport Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in% ratio of the integral indicator by mode of transport

Linear city

Linear city Is an urban settlement of a cluster type.

The surface of the land is intended for pedestrians and green plants, and transport, energy and information communications are located above the ground at the “second level”.

SkyWay horizontal elevators connect neighboring high-rise buildings, settlements, as well as residential, retail, entertainment clusters and allow you to comfortably move between them in a matter of minutes.

The towers-stations located on the sea shelf (on a pile foundation) have a surface island-platform in the form of a park zone, equipped on a layer of fertile soil.

The advantage of the SkyWay linear city:

reducing the cost of building roads;
reduction of harmful emissions into the urban atmosphere;
elimination of accidents in public transport;
elimination of traffic jams in the city;
restoration of ecology in the city;

Spheres and industries of application of Sky Way technology

Oil and gas industry

SkyWay technology provides the following capabilities:

reduction of costs by 35-40% for the construction of the main pipeline;
independence of the transport system from the terrain;
operation in conditions of the lowest possible temperatures, snow drifts and permafrost;
organization of traditional heavy-duty road transport over the pipeline transport system;

The limiting throughput of the SkyWay route is higher than that of an oil pipeline (one way) - up to 200-300 million tons / year, and the cost of oil transportation and gas reduction will be even slightly lower than that of an oil pipeline and a gas pipeline. Moreover, oil and liquefied gas can be transported in sealed returnable containers (with a capacity, for example, 10,000 kg.), Equipped with an electronic card with information about its composition, place of production, etc. This will allow not to mix oil from different fields, as is done now, but to process light oil (high-sulfur, high-paraffin, etc.) separately. At the same time, the construction of a SkyWay route is cheaper than an oil pipeline with a similar capacity.

Independence from the terrain

A traditional oil pipeline (gas pipeline) transports only oil (gas) and only in one direction, and along with them, it will be possible to transport ore, coal, lumber and other raw materials via SkyWay.

In the opposite direction - food, construction Materials, machinery, refined products (gasoline, diesel fuel, etc.), shift workers, etc.

Loading and unloading of oil and gas containers can be carried out automatically in small cargo terminals - their diameter will be less than 100m.

Freight transportation

Overhead freight (specialized) transport system with a capacity of 100 and more million tons / year

Areas of use:

transportation of bulk cargo (ore, building materials, coal, etc.);
transportation of liquid cargo (oil and oil products, natural drinking water, etc.);
transportation of piece cargo (rolled steel, timber and timber, etc.)
transportation of containers;
transportation of special cargo;

Flexible integration into existing infrastructure

The loading terminal is located at the bulk storage site and is loaded using a conventional conveyor.
Unloading is carried out in integration with the existing logistics infrastructure. The compact size of the freight train and innovative solutions allow loading / unloading in motion at a rate of up to 8 tons / sec (up to 250 million tons per year).

Main characteristics of the hinged system:

speed - 120 km / h;
the carrying capacity of a freight train is up to 100 thousand tons;
slope - up to 30%;
transportation distance - up to 5000 km;
traffic volume - up to 250 million tons per year;
the cost of the complex is from 1-1.5 million USD / km.

the ability to combine with power lines;
speed - up to 40 km / h;
trolley carrying capacity - up to 5 tons;
slope - up to 30%;
transportation distance - up to 200 km;
traffic volume - up to 500 million tons per year;
the cost of the complex is from 1-1.5 million USD / km.

SkyWay in a specialized seaport

Benefits from using SkyWay:

allows you to deliver goods at a distance of 15-20 km offshore without significant cost increases;
provides an opportunity to deliver goods to a seaport located in the natural depths (up to 50 meters), without dredging and shore protection works;
the port and the SkyWay transport system form an automatic complex for the delivery of raw materials, which functions as a single logistic process.

Main characteristics of the harness:

placement at a depth of 25-30m;
the volume of bulk cargo handling - up to 250 million tons per year;
type of transshipment - from rolling stock to the hold of a bulk carrier.

The cargo and passenger network includes three components:

interregional SkyWay, regional (within the region), and local (city).

Interregional SkyWay

Interregional SkyWay It is a string-rail overhead transport system of the "second level" to ensure high-speed transportation with an operating speed of up to 500 km / h and throughput more than 100,000 passengers per day.

Main characteristics:

design speed - up to 500 km / h;
support height - 6-10 m and more;
maximum slope of the path - 15%;
fuel consumption (diesel) - up to 0.7-0.9 l / 100 pass. per km. at a speed of 360 km / h;
the cost of building a high-speed passenger-and-freight track - from 2-3 million USD / km.

Benefits:

10-15 times cheaper than monorail, elevated mini-metro, high-speed railroad and magnetic levitation systems;
2-3 times cheaper than traditional land transport.

Regional SkyWay

Main characteristics:

design speed of movement - up to 300 km / h;
capacity - up to 100 passengers or more;
span length - 30-50 m and more (up to 2 km);
support height 6-10 m and more;
maximum slope of the path - 30%;
fuel consumption (diesel) - up to 0.5 - 0.7 k / 100 pass. per km at a speed of 200 km / h;
the cost of building a high-speed passenger-and-freight track - from 1.5 - 2 million USD / km.

Urban SkyWay

Main characteristics:

passenger traffic with an operating speed of up to 150 km / h;
carrying capacity - more than 20,000 passengers per hour;
20-30 times cheaper than the underground metro.

This system fits perfectly into the existing infrastructure of any megalopolis, solving the transport problems of large cities by forming a network of high-rise buildings with overhead ("air") transport links between them.

The innovative string technology was developed 38 years ago, when Anatoly Yunitskiy decided to optimize the transport system, making it affordable, highly efficient and safe. During this time, the string transport project has evolved from the stage of an engineering idea to the stage of practical development.

In 2001, the technology for the construction of a string-rail track structure and supports, the main units and elements of the first-generation cargo string transport were successfully tested at a test site built in the city of Ozyory, Moscow Region.

The current level of development of string transport technology allows you to immediately start designing a particular route and ordering the manufacture of rolling stock of the fourth generation.

The novelty of Yunitskiy's inventions is secured by Russian and international patents for inventions.

The high level of scientific and design study of string technologies is confirmed by:

two UN grants (1998 and 2002);
the presence of more than 50 Russian and Eurasian patents for inventions obtained in the period 1994-2015;
18 scientific monographs (1995-2015);
more than 100 scientific articles and reports at international conferences (1988-2015);
more than 30 diplomas of international exhibitions (1994-2015);
two gold medals of the All-Russian Exhibition Center (1998 and 2002);
three certificates of the Laureate of the national competition "Russian Brand" of the National Program for the Promotion of the Best Russian Goods, Services and Technologies (2001);
two diplomas "Golden Chariot" of the National Public Award of the transport industry of Russia in the nomination "Project of the Year of the Transport Industry" (2009 and 2011).

Elements of SkyWay technology have been tested: