OREANDA-NEWS. April 24, 2008. Leonid Proskuryakov has been appointed as general inspector-director of General Inspection Department of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation.

Leonid Proskuryakov has been appointed as general inspector-director of General Inspection Department of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation. The Department has been set up for regulating work in the fields of nuclear, radiation and industrial safety, quality control and physical protection.

Before the appointment Proskuryakov was the head of similar department of TVEL OJSC (100% subsidiary of Atomenergoprom OJSC).

Leonid Proskuryakov was born on Mar 3 1943. He graduated from Ural Polytechnic University. Before 1991 he was engineer of Chepetsk Mechanical Plant, chief engineer and deputy director of Chemical and Mining Combine, head of department of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of the USSR. In 1991–1998 he was chairman of the board, director general of TVEL Concern. In 1998–2008 he was vice president, chief engineer for nuclear and radiation safety of TVEL.