Putin to discuss new Far East ship-building plant in Vladivostok November 13

Russia November 10, 2014, 15:57

Vladimir Putin will also participate in a satellite TV link-up in a ceremony to commission the second hydropower unit of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will chair a meeting over creation of a ship-building plant on the basis of the far eastern Zvezda shipyard on November 13, the Kremlin press service said Monday.

An industrial center to produce marine machinery and equipment for prospecting, production and delivery of hydrocarbons will be set up on Russian president's instructions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will go on a working trip to Russian far eastern city of Vladivostok on November 12 to 13.

On November 12, the head of state will participate in a satellite TV link-up in a ceremony to commission second hydropower unit of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant which is the last one of ten hydropower units at the plant fully renovated in restoration after the man-made hydropower disaster on August 17, 2009, the Kremlin press service said. The president will also visit a laboratory building of Far Eastern Federal University operating since September 1, 2014 with laboratories of underwater robotic equipment, mechanics, basic chair of petrochemistry of Russian oil major Rosneft and will study the process of learning at lectures given by invited professors, the press service said.

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