The Kaskol Group of Companies is a corporation with a tied diversified structure. The Kaskol Group concentrates its activities in the heavy industry sector, such as aircraft and shipbuilding as well as information and managerial technologies. The Kaskol Group holds equity stakes, and participates in the management of such widely known industrial enterprises as: Aircraft Building Plant Sokol in Nizhny Novgorod Gidromash the leading Russian producer of hydraulic gear and chassis assemblies for the aerospace industry and the worlds leading heavy cargo air company Volga-Dnepr Airlines. The Kaskol group also includes such companies, dealing in the field of aircraft building as: Rostekhimport, specializing in CAD/CAM systems development, Alpha Integrator-an exclusive representative in Russia and other CIS countries of BAAN Corporation, which is one of the biggest suppliers of software for management information systems.