MOSCOW. Oct 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The exhibition called "St. Petersburg's 300th Anniversary. Science, Industry, Education", to be held in Beirut on October 7-10, will see presentation of innovative products, manufactured by the Russian defense industry.
"Innovative products, manufactured by St. Petersburg-based defense industry enterprises, will constitute the mainstay of the exhibition, organized by the office of the presidential envoy to the Northwestern Federal District and Rosoboronexport, with the help of the Lebanese Economic and Trade Ministry, Industry Ministry, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The focus will be shifted toward such spheres as power engineering, mechanical engineering, machinery construction, shipbuilding, ecology, medicine, chemical engineering, and development of new materials, designed for commercial applications," the Rosoboronexport press-service told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
According to the press-service, the developments displayed are targeted at real needs of Lebanon and other states of the region. For instance, multi-purpose power tools and automated processing systems, manufactured by the Sverdlov Machine-Tool Plant, may be widely used in various manufacturing industrial branches in the Middle East. Wind power stations, designed by the Elektropribor Central Research and Development Institute, are capable of providing the most remote and hard-to-reach areas with electric power. Contemporary water purification equipment such as water-desalinating plants and small-size filters, as well as decontaminating systems, to be displaced by the Central Research and Development Institute named after Academician Krylov and the Proletarsky Zavod plant (Central Research and Development Institute of ship machine-tool engineering) are aimed at solving the problem of fresh water shortages, which has recently become of paramount importance to the Middle East states. The exhibition will also see Rosoboronexport's presentation for local business elite.
"Promoting state-of-the-art commercial of the shelf products (COTS), manufactured by the Russian defense industry, in new foreign markets has become of the crucial workstreams of Rosoboronexport," the press-service said.