The new head of Uralvagonzavod was appointed

The head of Uralvagonzavod will be the deputy minister of industry and trade in the Russian Federation Alexander Potapov. This was stated by the general director of the Rostec state corporation Sergey Chemezov.

“We expect that under the leadership of Potapov the ambitious goals facing the Uralvagonzavod will be realized,” Interfax quoted his words.

Chemezov called Potapov an experienced leader who “is deeply immersed in the specifics of the work of the defense industry, foreign economic activity, as well as the structure of the implementation of the state defense order”.

On March 2, it became known that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev freed Alexander Potapov from the post of deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The information that he can change Oleg Sienko as the general director of Uralvagonzavod appeared on December 28. The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the transfer of shares of Rostec UVZ Sergey Chemezov. According to Vedomosti , in early October, with a request to change the owner of the UVZ and transfer it to the Rostec Corporation to Putin was addressed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

Nizhny Tagil UVZ is engaged in the production of military equipment, construction vehicles and wagons. Before the transfer of Rostec, he completely belonged to the state. According to the results of 2015, the loss of UVZ increased three times to 16.4 billion rubles. Over the past two years, the company has repeatedly asked for multi -billion dollar state guarantees, some of them have been issued .