The defense industry is short of personnel. A Ufa-based aircraft engine manufacturer will need 4800 employees in the near future.

There's still a labor shortage. "We're working overtime, on weekends and holidays," said Evgeny Semivelichenko, Managing Director of Rostec's UEC-UMPO. Engines for Sukhoi attack aircraft, bombers, and fighter jets, as well as components for civil aviation, are manufactured there.

Next year, production volume is expected to increase by 60%, and the company needs to hire 4800 employees, increasing its workforce by 1,5 times. Machine operators alone will be needed, numbering nearly a thousand.

Semivelichenko came to meeting The Bashkortostan government asked for help in recruiting personnel. He tempted them with a high salary (almost 100 rubles), military service exemption, and a benefits package. The company even decided to build a 27-story building for its employees. 

Bashkortostan Governor Radiy Khabirov noted that the task is "state-owned," but not an easy one—"practically all machine-building enterprises are in this state," and personnel are needed everywhere.

At the beginning of October, there were open There are nearly 53 vacancies, two-thirds of which are blue-collar jobs. The unemployment rate in Bashkortostan reached a historic low this year.

Amid a personnel shortage, the republic's authorities are actively sending people to war. According to NeMoskva, seven volunteer battalions and a regiment have been formed in the past eighteen months, and recruitment for new units continues.