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Education
Igor Volokitin in 1993 graduated from the Samara Institute of Railway Engineers transport with a degree in Wagons, having received the qualification of a mechanical engineer.
Career
1993-2020
He began his career in railway transport in 1993 as the foreman of the steaming station of the car depot of the Kuibyshev railway. Then he successively went through all the growth stages to the head of the Syzran-1 carriage depot. From 2005 to 2011, he served as head of the Kuibyshev Directorate for the repair of freight cars, then director of the Samara branch of VRK-1 JSC.
From 2012 to 2020 - General Director of JSC VRK-3.
2024: Appointment as CEO of VRK-1
In June 2024, Igor Volokitin was appointed General Director of the largest car repair company in Russia, VRK-1.
As noted in the press service of the company in June 2024, in recent years, after the sale of a stake in JSC VRK-3, he headed the design and design bureau of the wagon economy, ensuring the development of design, technological and regulatory documentation for the organization of repair and maintenance of freight cars in a timely and high quality.
By June 2024, the structure of "VRK-1" includes 7 regional representative offices, 40 car repair enterprises, 19 car workshops, 45 points of current and uncoupling repair of cars, 18 washing and steaming stations, 44 wheel and roller sections. The company's production facilities are located at the landfill of each of the railways of Russian Railways. JSC "VRK-1" repairs all types of cars, providing the following services:
- Depov repair of wagons;
- overhaul of railcars;
- current and uncoupling repair of railcars;
- modernization of freight cars of model 13-4012 with extension of service life in model 13-6887-03, 13-6887-05 and model 13-6887-07 in model 13-198, 13-6740;
- repair of passenger cars;
- current and medium repair of wheelsets;
- overhaul of wheelsets;
- production of components;
- washing, steaming of wagons;
- painting cars and applying logos of any complexity;
- safe storage and logistics of car spare parts/assemblies;
- cutting wagons into scrap metal;
- sludge/simple cars on own traction tracks.[1]