Sergei Smirnov has been appointed as Acting Director General of Proletarsky Zavod JSC (Saint-Petersburg, USC) from March 2, 2016.
The position was earlier held by Yury Gabdrafikov.
Sergei Smirnov earlier held the position of Chief Technical Officer.
Proletarsky Zavod JSC is among the oldest machine building companies of Saint-Petersburg. It specializes in marine and power engineering. The plant currently supplies equipment for warships being built by Severnaya Verf, Yantar, Amur Shipyard, Sevmash, Zvezdochka. The company is working on production of arresting gear of new modifications.
The company delivers products for military and civil ships, including cruiser-carriers, nuclear submarine missile carriers, super tankers.
There is a significant contribution of the company to development of power engineering of large and small power plants - the company develops and produces pump equipment for Thermal Stations, Steam-gas Plants, Nuclear Power Plants and oil industry, gas turbine generators and steam turbine generators as well as transportable gas turbine power stations.