On June 6 Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko appointed Vyacheslav Ruksha as Acting Director of Atomflot FSUE.
The President of Russia has decreed to include Atomflot FSUE in the list of companies to be owned by Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation on behalf of the Russian Federation. In late Aug 2008 Atomflot FSUE will be given control over all the nuclear icebreakers of Russia: Lenin (1959), Arktika (1975), Siberia (1978), Russia (1985), Taymyr (1988), Soviet Union (1988), Vaygach (1990), Yamal (1992) and 50 Years Since Victory (2007).
Vyacheslav Ruksha was born on February 17, 1954 in Grodno (Byelorussia). In 1976, he graduated from the high engineering naval school called after Makarov. He started working as electrical foreman at the vessels of MurmanskMurmansk shipping company. shipping company, senior foreman, head of instrumentation and control service at nuclear ships of