MOSCOW. Dec 10 (Interfax-AVN) - Winners of the Gold Idea national annual prize got their awards in Moscow on Tuesday.
"The prize is given for achievements in organizing and effecting exports of military-purpose products, development and production of the latest competitive export-oriented armament and military hardware," Mikhail Dmitriyev, chairman of the Russian committee for military-technical cooperation with foreign countries, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"Military technical cooperation has become an inalienable part of this country's foreign economic activity," Dmitriyev said, opening the ceremony.
"We rounded up the year with fairly good results. Export revenues exceeded USD4bn. Foreign currency revenues are higher than last year. Winners of the Gold Idea prize have made their contribution to this success," the official said.
As far as contribution to the development of export-oriented military hardware is concerned, the Almaz federal state unitary enterprise (corporate authors from Almaz, the Academician Krylov Central R&D Institute, and St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University) won the first prize, the Ural Optic- Mechanical Plant the second prize, and the Ramenskoye Instrumentation Design Bureau the third prize.
As far as contribution to the production of export-oriented military hardware is concerned, the Splav federal state-owned unitary enterprise (corporate authors from Splav and the Novosibirsk Artificial Fiber Plant) won the first prize, the Uralvagonzavod state-owned unitary enterprise the second prize, and the Rostvertol JSO the third prize.
As far as personal contribution to the development of military-technical cooperation is concerned, Nikolai Malykh, Uralvagonzavod director general, won the first prize, Sergei Vasiliev, director general of the Kupol Electromechanical Plant, the second prize, and Arkady Shipunov, designer/director general of the KBP state-owned enterprise, the third prize.
The prize for the best investment project in military- technical cooperation was not given to anybody.
Honor certificates for achievements in military-technical cooperation, development and production of state-of-the-art military hardware will be given to Olga Yedemskaya, designer I rank of the Sukhoi design bureau, Sergei Zubarev, designer II rank of Kupol, Valery Rostovtsev, designer II rank of KBP, Andrey Terlikov, senior designer of the Ural design bureau of transport machine building, and Oleg Tretyakov, laboratory chief of the Defense Ministry's 1st Central Research Institute.
First prize winners got RUB200,000 (USD6,280), second prize winners RUB150,000 (USD4,710) and third prize winners RUB100,000 (USD3,140). Honor certificate winners got RUB50,000 (USD1,570).
Last year's winners were awarded with gold bars weighing 1,000, 500, 200 and 100g respectively.
General sponsors of the prize are Eurofinance Bank, NOMOS- BANK, Mosnarbank and ROSNO insurance company. In addition to their representatives, the organizers committee of the prize includes high-ranking officials of the Defense Ministry, committee for military technical cooperation with foreign countries, Economic Development Ministry, Ministry of Industry, Science, and Technologies, Control Systems Agency, Conventional Weapons Agency, Aviation and Space Agency, Shipbuilding Agency, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and League of Assistance to Defense Industry Enterprises.