UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2016. Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) Director-General Anatoly Barabanov was awarded a thank-you letter from Governor of Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports.

The letter states that it has been issued in recognition of ‘many years of conscientious work efforts, impressive contribution to the development of Sverdlovsk Region’s industry, and supporting the Russian Federation’s defense potential.’

’Anatoly Barabanov came to work at the plant with a fresh degree from Ulyanovsk Polytechnic forty years ago this year; he has been the plant’s Director-General for twenty-one years now. He is now in charge of a complex, unique production facility in the Russian defense sector. The plant makes wheels, brakes, and control units for military, multi-purpose, and civilian planes and helicopters as well as some of the parts used in armored vehicles,’ the company press service says.

The company’s military-purpose goods are part of the state-supported import substitution program, which the plant’s Director-General sees as the company priority.