UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 15, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) celebrated the 90th birthday of the institute’s first director Lev Plevako, the company press service reports.

‘This was an outstanding person, who was one of the organization’s founding fathers coming from Sergei Korolev’s designer school, and a Great Patriotic War veteran as well. He was chosen to run the institute when the organization was founded in 1970 and remained in office for over two decades, contributing greatly to Burevestnik’s development and making it instrumental in the design of artillery weapons. Plevako supervised the development of the naval guns AU 220, AU 221, AK 176 and the mortar guns 2B14 and 2B11. He built a creative and productive team, where special attention was paid to training young cadre and improving their technological skills,’ the press service says.

An exhibition of books from his private collection (donated to the company in 1990 when the director retired) was organized at the company library in memory of the remarkable person.

‘These books, over two hundred in number, reflect Plevako’s wide scientific outlook and feature volumes on artillery, ballistics, gas dynamic theory, and reliability as well as various dictionaries. Most of these are still popular with our employees and tend to be constantly borrowed,’ the press service says.