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To Russia with Love

29 марта 2006
To Russia with Love

Ask Anya Barski, a Russian immigrant who moved to the U.S. a decade ago, if she ever thought she'd be managing a U.S.-owned research center in her native country and she can only laugh. "Definitely not," she says. Yet today, Barski is senior director of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s St. Petersburg Development Center.

Ask Alan Taub, executive director of research and development at General Motors Corp., if he thought he'd be collaborating with Russian engineers and he reacts similarly. "It's remarkable," he says. Early in his career, Taub worked on Cold War military projects. Today, he says, GM engineers are "working side by side with scientists inside the Russian institutes that decades earlier were developing countermilitary technology."

Barski and Taub may be surprised to find themselves conducting research in Russia, but they are not alone. More and more multinational companies are sending R&D work to the country. As a center for corporate R&D, Russia is not yet on a par with China or India, where dozens of major companies now have substantial R&D centers (see Corporate Dealmaker, May-June 2005). In the overlapping market for IT outsourcing, it has had to play to its own particular strengths, since it can't hope to match India in high-volume, long-term services. Still, Russia's world-class science and engineering talent, a legacy of the Soviet-era military and aerospace industries and the educational system that fed them, is proving a significant draw. The country is emerging as a prime destination for software application development, system design, computational modeling and other complex technical work.