A significant Russian shipyard that makes a speciality of constructing non-nuclear submarines stated its common director had died immediately on Saturday after 11 years within the job, however gave no particulars.
Admiralty Shipyards, primarily based within the western port of St. Petersburg, introduced the demise of Alexander Buzakov in an announcement. He had been within the job since August 2012.
His major achievement, it stated, had been preserving and strengthening the shipyard’s order books for contemporary non-nuclear submarines, floor ships and deep water automobiles.
Tass news company stated the shipyard is constructing improved Kilo-class diesel-powered submarines able to launching Kalibr cruise missiles.
In April, Moscow stated it had used a diesel submarine within the Black Sea to strike Ukrainian army targets with Kalibrs.
The shipyard stated Buzakov graduated in 1980 and had greater than 40 years of expertise, indicating he had been in his mid-sixties when he died. St. Petersburg is the house metropolis of President Vladimir Putin.