MOSCOW, March 28 (AVN) - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov signed the resolution "Concerning RF Government Awards in the Sphere of Science and Technology for the Year 2000" on Wednesday.
The award and the title Holder of the RF Government Award in the Sphere of Science and Technology went to Yuri Kofanov, professor of the Moscow State Technical University, Alexander Andreyev, leading researcher of the Defence Ministry's 22nd Central R&D Institute, Gumar Abdurakhmanov, deputy department head in the engineering centre of the Admiralteiskie Verfi shipyard, Boris Shapiro, leading engineer in the Rubin central naval design bureau, Sergei Avdeyev, cosmonaut instructor and first-class test pilot of the Energia missile and space corporation, Yevgeny Bobrov, deputy department head in Energia's chief design bureau, and Nikolai Bryukhanov, deputy director of the International Space Station programme.
Yevgeny Bronin, aide to the director general of the Almaz central design bureau, was awarded for development of scientific foundations, development and introduction of automatic complex systems for modelling physical processes in radio-electronic equipment.
Vladimir Shchegolikhin, chief researcher of the Defence Ministry's 1st Central R&D Institute, received the award for development and introduction of a set of highly efficient damping constructions that ensure considerable reduction of vibration and noise and increase in operational reliability of mechanisms and equipment in ship-building and other branches of industry and transport.
Viktor Afanasyev, deputy commander of the cosmonauts detachment of the Gagarin state cosmonauts training centre, got the award for research and technical backing and implementation of extravehicular works at Russian space stations from 1974 to 1999.
Several other prominent researchers were awarded.