KAZAN. Sept 16 (Interfax) - Members of the board of directors of the Tupolev company, which builds strategic and long-range aircraft, elected head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov to the post of board of directors chairman on Thursday, Minnikhanov's press service said.
"President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has been elected the chairman of the Tupolev company's board of directors. This decision was adopted today at an in-person meeting of the board of directors," the press service said.
The head of Tatarstan did not head the Tupolev board of directors previously.
According to materials on the Tupolev website, the company's shareholders elected a seven-member board of directors at their annual meeting in June 2021. But subsequently the shareholders held a special meeting in late August, dissolving the entire board of directors ahead of time and electing a new board of directors. Five members of the former board were reelected to the new one. Two new members also joined the board of directors. They are Minnikhanov and Vadim Korolyov, who was appointed the Tupolev company's first deputy general director for program management in April of this year.
The Tupolev company incorporates the Moscow-based design bureau and the Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Plant. Tupolev develops and produces a whole range of strategic and long-range aircraft such as advanced Tu-160M, Tu-95MSM and Tu-22M3M missile carrying bombers and a new-generation strategic plane. The company also serially manufactures all modifications of the Tu-214 plane and provides after-sales maintenance and upgrades of all earlier delivered aircraft.