CCI–Volgograd

The Volgograd office was CCI’s second office and marked the organization’s first expansion from the major metropolitan areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg into Russia’s regions. Established in 1993 and directed by Olga Kriakova, the office has 12 staff members. The Volgograd office recruits and prepares delegates for CCI’s Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) and assists with other programs, including the CCI Leaders Institute and the Schultz Awards. They also manage satellite operations, which identify and prepare PEP candidates from the Volga and lower Volga region.

Since inception, the office has worked on a number of CCI programs such as the Economic Development Program. The office has also been a key player in working to develop and support local small and medium-sized businesses. Among other initiatives, the office has worked to form and develop the Volgograd Regional Association of Entrepreneurs and the Volgograd Rotary Club, which was established in 1998 in part by CCI alumnae.

In addition to its work on CCI programs, the Volgograd office provides independent personnel recruitment and training services for middle management. The office has also organized and sponsored several business seminars and workshops in the area.

Volgograd (pop. 1 million) is located over 600 miles southeast of Moscow on the bank of the Volga River. It is the administrative, economic and cultural center of the Lower Volga Region and a major transportation hub. Founded in 1589 as “Tsaritsyn,” a fortress on Russia’s southern boundary, the city’s importance grew during the reign of Peter the Great and by the mid-19th century was an important commercial center, particularly for the transportation of oil from Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan). In 1925, Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad and grew to be a regional center of agriculture and manufacturing. During World War II, the long but ultimately failed German siege of Stalingrad is credited as a major turning point in the war. The city, however, the target of nearly a million German bombs, was utterly destroyed leaving only 6,000 houses. The reconstruction of Stalingrad was decreed a matter of prime importance to the Soviet Union and over the next decades it was rebuilt and named Volgograd. Today Volgograd has a large and thriving private industry and economy.

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Kommunisticheskaya St. 62, Room 212
Volgograd 400131

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