An opinion on the “Electrograd” project in the Minusinsk valley through the prism of social design experience of atomic catfs

Abstract

The article considers significant social and managerial features of developing the “Minusinsk” project/ Electrograd city in the Minusinsk Valley as one of the large-scale state projects, including creating and developing urban sites of presence. The analysis is conducted using the successful experience of designing closed administrative-territorial formations (CATFs) as sites of presence of the USSR Atomic Project. The purpose of this atomic project was to ensure parity in the Cold War, an “arms race”, and the creation of national “Nuclear shield”. The authors are interested in applying the project approach methodology to analyzing the “Minusinsk” project as well as using the concept of forming a value core of corporatism in CATF to increase motivation, involvement, and cohesion of city residents around the project. Currently, the “Minusinsk” project barely considers the need to provide cities of presence with corporate identity, a particular spirit that would motivate, unite, and involve citizens in the project’s implementation from within. Given the successful practice of creating and developing the Atomic project and nuclear CATFs, the development and further social reproduction of the value core of corporatism can improve performance and become a fundamental condition for their implementation. The authors conclude that within the “Minusinsk” project, the use of corporatism involves setting a goal of state importance, which is fixed structurally, organizationally, programmatically, and has a detailed project.