Lasar’s Group founder Pavel Yelizarov believes that IT specialists and engineers should be recruited into the defense industry as civilian employees, rather than mobilized into the military. In his opinion, this way they will be able to more effectively use their professional skills to develop military technologies.
Lasar’s Group founder Pavel Yelizarov believes that IT specialists and engineers should be recruited into the defense industry as civilian employees, rather than mobilized into the military. In his opinion, this way they will be able to more effectively use their professional skills to develop military technologies.
Elizarov suggests a different model of interaction: the military formulates the technical need, and the civilian IT team develops the product and transfers it to the military. According to Elizarov, this is how he tried to organize the work between Lasar’s Group and civilian R&D teams.
"The task of the military is to formulate a need. And the civilian IT team develops a corresponding product and, relatively speaking, transfers it to the military for one hryvnia. Therefore, my position is this: IT specialists should not be forcibly driven into the army. After all, we need a result, not a person suffering," he noted in an interview with DOU.
In the army, he says, a person inevitably faces restrictions. "They no longer feel free, and this creates stress. I remember my own experience when I volunteered for the Territorial Defense. At first, we were on an emotional high: now we will receive machine guns, we will defend the country. But a month passed, and the usual army routine began. Line-ups, restrictions on movement, a ban on leaving the territory of the unit. You can sit without work for a week, but you still don’t have the right to just take it and leave. For a person who is used to freedom, this is a huge stress. I personally felt like I was in a cage. I was starting to feel real claustrophobia," shared the founder of Lasar’s Group.
According to him, when an IT professional becomes a military serviceman, he can no longer work fully in a civilian R&D company or in production.
Yelizarov also advocates for greater participation of civilian specialists in army management. In his opinion, entrepreneurial experience helps build processes, structure work, and focus on results.
