OKB “GIDROPRESS” is a Russian nuclear engineering company implementing the design, theoretical, analytical, R&D and production activities in reactor development. It is a subsidiary of the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom.
The company is focused on developing water-water energetic reactor (WWER or VVER) designs for a wide range of power outputs. WWERs are a type of pressurized water reactors that are cooled and moderated using water. WWER reactor plants designed by OKB “GIDROPRESS” are operated at 21 nuclear power plants in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, China, and Iran.
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People
Alexander IGNATOV
Deputy Director General on Quality management - Head of Division (Quality management and external relations)
Alexey KLIMKIN
Deputy Director General for engineering - Head of Division
Alexey KOMAROV
Acting Chief Designer-Deputy Director General, Head of Division (Liquid-metal cooled reactor Plants)
Alla SOLDATENKOVA
Deputy Director General for economics and finances - Head of Division (Economics and finance)
Anatoliy ZVONOV
Deputy Director General for purchases - Head of Division
Anton MARTYNOV
Deputy Head of Division (Designer’s supervision and operation monitoring)
Dmitry ERMAKOV
Chief Designer, Head of Department (Management of reactor plant designs)
Elena SHAMBAROVA
Deputy Director General for personnel - Head of Division
Evgeny LIZUNOV
Chief Engineer - Head of Division (Research and Production)
Igor SCHEKIN
Deputy Designer General, Head of Division (Designing of reactor plants)
Irina NOSOVA
Deputy Director General on legal matters and corporate management – Head of Division
Mikhail BYKOV
Deputy Designer General - Head of Division (Thermal physics)
Mikhail NIKITENKO
Chief Designer, Head of Department (Designing of reactor plant main systems and equipment)
Pavel VEDERNIKOV
Deputy Designer General - Head of Division (Structural integrity)
Sergey KUSHMANOV
Chief Designer, Head of Department (Designing of reactor cores and nuclear fuel handling equipment)
Vadim BERKOVICH
Deputy Designer General - Head of Division (Designer’s supervision and operation monitoring)
Valery KRYZHANOVSKY
Chief Designer, Head of Department (Reactor plant layout, modes and automatic control)
Victor DZHANGOBEGOV
Director General
Vladimir PIMINOV
Designer General
Vladimir SOTSKOV
Chief Designer, Head of Department (Designing of steam generators and heat-transfer equipment of reactor plant)
