OREANDA-NEWS. June 10, 2009. Director of Atomenergoprom OJSC Vladimir Travin has appointed Sergey Onufriyenko and Alexander Afrov as the managers of the Leningrad NPP-2 and Novovoronezh NPP-2 projects, respectively.

The managers of the projects will represent the interests of Atomenergoprom OJSC in the framework of the NPP construction program and will coordinate the activities of the key parties to the projects – Energoatom Concern OJSC (the owner) and the general contractor.

“The task of Atomenergoprom is to ensure the maximum efficiency of the program to build new nuclear power plants in Russia. The appointment of project managers will help to improve coordination among the parties, to better control the process of construction, to reduce costs and to use all available resources for preventing and solving possible problems,” says Travin.

Atomenergoprom will shortly appoint the managers of the other ongoing NPP construction projects.