16
Aug
2024
This August, the company will celebrate its 13th anniversary. Everything that surrounds us has its own story. Often one is similar to the other, but invariably they all remain unique. Today we will tell our story.
Although it is formally accepted to consider 2011 as the starting point, ideas began to emerge back in 2004. Then, for the first time in Russia, the largest automated control system of the SCC at that time was being implemented on the territory of the industrial site of the Aikhalsky GOK in Yakutia. It was at the beginning of the noughties that future colleagues of an unborn company begin their career path in the field of automated systems for mining enterprises.
2011, a new decade began in Russia with reforms, transformations, and in the same year the Skolkovo project is launched, which in the future will play an important role in the formation of the company. The first season of Game of Thrones is coming out this year. In general, everything that happened and happened in 2011 was of great importance. At the same time, a small company was born, which gathered from initiative friends who were burning with the idea of conquering the automation market.
The future president of the company, Ilya Sergeevich Yakushev, came to visit the future CEO, Lyubov Nikolaevna Brusenskaya. Then they were practically yesterday’s students, newcomers who had just opened the door to a career.
— Let’s work together? — it was with this question that Ilya Yakushev visited Lyubov Brusenskaya that day, who, however, was not enthusiastic about the proposal.
“I didn’t plan to change jobs at that moment and didn’t agree, but he knows how to find an approach. I could even then. So I gave up stability and followed him,” recalls Lyubov Brusenskaya.
No expectations. A company that will have to be built from scratch. At the beginning of the journey, even the smallest decisions have a strong impact on entire decades. That is why it is so important to have not only strong knowledge in the field, but also a strong enthusiasm to go through the difficulties with him. And in this case, there was plenty of it.
We rented an office on Tyumenskaya Street, where conditions were not the best: in the spring it dripped on our heads, in winter we sat in mittens. Then Alexey Dunyavin, Vladimir Polovinkin, Konstantin Skibin joined the young company, who still work at RIT Automation.
The small team was happy about the little things: the first purchase of special clothes, the first contracts. Everyone was friends and worked, the team became a small family developing a common cause. Then we did what we could and could do. And if they didn’t know how, then they learned: to wash the floor, boom. make a report, add a salary.
Even the future commercial director, Dmitry Kolesnichenko, got a completely different position at RIT Automation 8 years ago, but having proved himself in the field of commerce in a unique way, he became the first person selling the company’s solutions.
Now RIT Automation has 4 directions, at the moment the opening of the 5th is being prepared. These are hundreds of specialized exhibitions. These are multimillion-dollar contracts. This is more than 200 employees. These are residents of the Skolkovo Foundation. It is an accredited IT company. These are more than 10 solutions for the mining industry and beyond. These are customers from different countries. These are partners from China. This is the 13 years of life that the company has gone through from the beginning to today.