OREANDA-NEWS. July 31, 2007. Yury Petrovich Batalin – the conspicuous statesman of our country, outstanding manager and head of industrial and civil construction – celebrated his 80-th birthday.

The glorious jubilee was celebrated in OAO Stroytransgaz where Mr. Batalin has been working over 10 years. The management of Stroytransgaz outlined that he was one of the most outstanding representatives of the generation that created Russian fuel and energy complex. Indeed, there is hardly a single large oil or gas project in the territory of Russia and CIS implemented without participation of Yury Batalin. Mr. Batalin made a stupendous contribution into setting-up of unified gas transportation system and integrated oil pipeline system of the country – he took part in construction of more than 70% of pipelines in the USSR.

After graduation from the Ural Technical University Yu. Batalin had a work experience from a foreman in the trust Bashuglerazrezstroy to the Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers. In the middle of 80-ies, Yu. Batalin was the chairman of GOSSTROY (Russian Federation construction committee). In the period of his management of this huge sector, fundamental reorganization of capital construction administration of the country was fulfilled. 

Over a period of several years Mr. Batalin has been performing the duty of the head of Scientific and Technical Council of Stroytransgaz. Mr. Batalin took active participation in development of research and technology policy of the company and making critical decisions on project implementation i.e. development of Zapolyarnoye gas condensate field, construction of gas mains Yamal-Europe, Russia-Turkey etc. Since 1998 Mr. Batalin has been the Chief Editor of industrial-technical magazine ‘Potential’ issued by Stroytransgaz.

Yu. P. Batalin obtained many national and social awards, amongst them two Orders of Lenin, three Red Banners of Labour, two Orders of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as appreciation by the RF President V.V. Putin.

Many Russian newspapers sent their compliments to Yu. P. Batalin. The newspaper ‘Tribuna’ wrote: “all that Russia has today was accumulated by the labor of people like that and heroic Soviet past”.