Jun 26, 2007

Udmurt: Vice-Premier Makes Working Tour


Russia’s First Vice-Premier will make a working tour to visit the many factories and plants in Udmurt, observing also the effects of local regeneration programmes.

Russia’s First Vice-Premier will make a working tour to visit the many factories and plants in Udmurt, observing also the effects of local regeneration programmes.

Below are extracts of an article published by ITAR-TASS:

Russia's First Vice-Premier Sergei Ivanov makes a working tour of Republic of Udmurtia on Tuesday [26 June 2007].

A staff member of the secretariat of the First Vice-Premier has told Itar-Tass that Ivanov is to chair a visiting session of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC). Those present at the session are to review the process of work to ensure the development of solid-propellant projectiles for the missile systems Iskander, Bulava, and Topol-M.

The MIC session is to take place in the city of Votkinsk after a tour of the Votkinsk Plant. This engineering enterprise, apart from filling the defense order, turns out a large amount of civilian products ranging from metal-cutting machinetools, refrigerator containers, oil, gas and mine equipment to consumer goods, such as, for example, small-size washing machines and the Feya (fairy) centrifuges for wringing out the washing.

The Votkinsk Plant also fills orders for the atomic industry: assemblies for research nuclear reactors, and sets of equipment for the processing of solid radioactive wastes.

Ivanov is to tour the IzhAuto enterprise. This factory implements a joint project in conjunction with the Korean automobile company KIA Motors for the industrial assembly of Spectra car model. With a view to putting the car model into production, equipment and technologies have been additionally modernized.

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While in Udmurtia, Ivanov intends to visit the Izhevsk radio factory. This is multi-purpose enterprise is Russia's main developer and producer of telemetry systems of the carrier rockets such the Proton-K, Molniya, Soyuz, acceleration units Fregat, Briz-K, and DM, and space instrumentation Gorizont, etc. The radio factory also manufactures telephone-exchange terminals and onboard instrumentation of low-orbit communications satellite systems.

The Izhevsk radio factory actively participates in the development of equipment for both space and ground-based segments of the satellite navigation system GLONASS.

The First Vice-Premier is also expected to attend the opening of a sports ground for children. The sports ground has been built by the New Generation sports programmes foundation, the Board of Trustees of which is headed by Ivanov.

The main purpose of the Foundation is to draw children and adolescents into physical training and sports, and popularize a healthy way of living. The Foundation works in such areas as the building of new sports facilities or repair outdated ones, the fitting out of children's sports schools with sports requisite and equipment, the payment of stipends to coaches at sports schools and sections, and the holding of master classes by outstanding sportsmen and coaches.