MOSCOW. June 6 (Interfax-AVN) - The Polyot company based in Omsk was awarded gold medals of the VTTV-Omsk 2003 arms show for its progress in the AN-70 project.
"The winner of the contest, the Polyot Association, has got several gold medals - 'For Successful Arrangement of the First Stage of the Serial Production of the AN-70 military cargo aircraft', 'For Acceptance of the AN-70 for Production', and "For Development and Employment of Compact High-Yield Thermal Sources'," the press service of the Omsk region administration told Interfax-Military News Agency Friday.
All in all, 13 Omsk-based enterprises have got gold medals, he said.
The Mir research and production association was awarded one "for the production of import-analog products at a high technical level," and the Baranov engine-building association for "successful acceptance and production of the TVD-20 aircraft engines and the VTsS-10 power plant."
Other Omsk-based winners are the IT and Remote Education Center of the Omsk State University, Omsk Instrument Making Design Bureau, Sibirskiye Motory i Sistemy company, Omskshina company, the Regional Specialized Traumatology and Orthopaedy Hospital, Omsk State Medical Academy, and Titan Group.
The outsider winners are the Atlas Research Center (Moscow), Automation and Hydraulics Central Research Institute (Moscow), RNT Simulation Training Systems Department (Moscow), Barnaul Machine-Building Plant (Barnaul), Radiozavod (Penza), State Instrument Making Plant (Ryazan), KamAZ (Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan internal republic), Ural (Chelyabinsk region), and Design and Technology Institute for Applied Microelectronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch.
The contest was arranged by the organizing committee of the show and by the InterSib international exhibition center among all (over 170) participants; 25 enterprises won medals in 27 nominations.