UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2017. Director-General of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash Igor Lobov was recently granted the honorary title of Omsk Region’s Honored Industrial Worker, the company press service reports.

Lobov was awarded in acknowledgement of his great contribution to the development of the Russian machine-building industry.

Igor Lobov has moved on from a shift foreman at a chemical/metallurgical plant to a director-general of a defense enterprise in the thirty years of his career. He has been head of Omsktransmash for the last six years now, introducing new jobs, launching up-to-date equipment, and supervising the development of a whole range of promising armored vehicles for Russia’s Armed Forces.

The Russian Army currently relies on as many as twenty-nine military-purpose vehicles designed and made at Omsktransmash.