Leonid Reznikov (in the photo) will oversee the unification of Atomstroiexport and Atomenergoproekt.
Photo: Yakov Andreev
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Atomstroiexport, Atomenergoproekt Unite
Leonid Reznikov has been appointed president of Atomstroiexport to replace Sergey Shmatko, who became minister of energy in May. Reznikov will oversee the process to turn Atomstroiexport from a contractor for the construction of atomic power plants abroad to multipurpose holding that will design, build and equip atomic plants in Russia and abroad. Dan Belenky, who has been serving as acting president of Atomstroiexport, will become its executive director. Rosatom owns 51 percent of Atomstroiexport, with the remainder belonging to Gazprombank. At the end of last year, the board of directors of Atomstroiexport approved an additional stock issue that will continue through November.
Reznikov was born in 1958 in Lvov. He graduated from the law department of the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, the Higher School of Privatization of the State Committee for the Management of State Property and the Academy of Economics. He became vice president of Vostokgazprom in 2001 and general director Tomskneftekhim in 2003. In April 2006, he became vice president of Sibneft (in June 2006 vice president of Gazprom Neft). Last year, he became general director of the Atomstroiexport institute in St. Petersburg.
Atomstroiexport is being united with Atomenergoproekt, one of the largest design institutes in the Russian atomic industry. The unification is not a matter of shareholders, but of management. A single management company, headed by Reznikov, will be formed. Atomstroiexport will benefit from the acquisition of an engineering asset. Atomenergoproekt is the designer of the so-called Project 2006 atomic power plant. Of the 26 new atomic blocks that will go online in Russia by 2012, at least six of them will be of that design. Some of them may be investment projects with the participation of Western investors. Atomstroiexport has already been chosen as general contractor for a project at the Kaliningrad atomic power plant.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 23, 2008
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