First Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Defense Procurement (Rosoboronzakaz) Lyudmila Vorobyova has been appointed as the new head of the service, the Rosoboronzakaz website reports.

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“By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated December 3 of this year, Lyudmila Vasilievna Vorobyova was appointed director of the Federal Service for Defense Order (Rosoboronzakaz),” the message says.

Lyudmila Vorobyova was born on August 29, 1953. in Leningrad. An economist by training. In 2005-2009 worked as the head of the department of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) in St. Petersburg, in 2009-2011. She held the post of head of the Federal Tax Service in Moscow. Since June 2011 - First Deputy Director of Rosoboronzakaz.

L. Vorobyova was appointed instead of Alexander Sukhorukov. In September 2011 he was appointed to the post of First Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, who is responsible for the execution of state defense orders and the purchase of weapons.

Let us remind you that Rosoboronzakaz is a federal government body that carries out control and supervision activities over the implementation by federal executive authorities, executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local government bodies, their officials, legal entities established by the Constitution, federal constitutional laws, federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation norms and rules in the field of state defense order, as well as in the field of placing orders for the supply of goods, performance of work, provision of services for federal state needs not related to the state defense order, information about which constitutes a state secret.

New head of Rosoboronzakaz appointed