OREANDA-NEWS. On August 07, 2008 Abakar Abakarov, chief engineer of Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro”, met with the representatives of the state and local newspapers and TV stations, reported the press-centre of RusHydro.

The theme of this press-conference was “Results of industrial activities of Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro” during the first 6 months of 2008”.
 
At the beginning of the conference Abakar Abakarov informed the journalists that starting with the 9th of January of this year the company functions as a Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro”, the biggest hydrogenation company of Russia, and operates 10 hydropower stations on the territory of Dagestan Republic.
 
During the first six month of 2008 hydropower stations of JSC “RusHydro” Affiliate – “Dagestan Branch” generated 1894.410 million kW/h of electric power. This index exceeds the planed generation index by 6% because of the frequent showers in the Sulak River basin area.
 
Abakar Abakarov emphasized: Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro” has completely and timely settled all current payments with the budget and non-budget funds. During the first six months of 2008 Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro” taxed into budgets of all levels 453.65million rubles, which is more than twice as mush as for the same period of the previous year. It is connected with the fixed assets overvaluation and JSC “RusHydro” annual revenue”.
 
Participants of the conference were presented a renewed brand mark of JSC “RusHydro”. This new mark is a revised version of the old one modified in connection with the new Russian name of the company.

Abakar Abakarov presented to the journalists “Sail of Hope” Charity Program of JSC “RusHydro”. Realization of this program was started in 16 regions of Russian Federation this year. Long-term charity program is aimed to support children from orphanages and shelters, abused children, socially unstable families; to provide financial support for talented young boys and girls in their education; to encourage young promising researchers in their studies and research in the hydropower field. The annual budget of “Sail of Hope” Charity Program of Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro” equals 12 million rubles and covers cities, towns and villages in all regions of Dagestan Republic.
 
In conclusion Abakar Abakarov, chief engineer of Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro”, answered in details the question the journalists had for him concerning activates of the company during the first 6 months of the current year.