October 10, 2014. Uralcryomash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) unveiled a bust portraying the plant’s first Chief Designer Mefodiy Veremyev to celebrate its 60th anniversary.

According to the corporation’s press service, the unveiling ceremony was attended by Uralcryomash Director-General Dmitri Skoropupov, Designer-General Oleg Cheremnykh, Chief Designer Rudolf Zashlyapin, and the plant’s long-service employees and current workers. According to those present at the ceremony, the Nizhniy Tagil-based sculptress Angelica Yuzhakova recreated the designer’s appearance very closely.

OKB 250, the special-purpose design office for cryogenic equipment and above-ground launching machinery, was founded on October 1, 1954. It was also then that Mefodiy Veremyev was appointed its Chief Designer. Sergey Korolev personally placed Veremyev’s name onto the shortlist of the Lenin Prize (the USSR’s most prestigious award) candidates for his creation of the mobile liquid-oxygen loading system for Vostok space rocket that delivered the Earth’s first artificial satellite onto the orbit. Veremyev was awarded the Order of Lenin after the first manned space flight had taken place: this was the Russian Government’s way of acknowledging the OKB 250 Chief Designer and the office team’s contribution to space exploration.

Nowadays the design office set up by Mefodiy Veremyev is at the heart of the scientific and technical thought. Uralcryomash keeps taking part in the Russian space programs and new projects, including the ones implemented at Vostochny launching site.