OREANDA-NEWS. On 25 March 2008 was announced, that on the eve of the Motherland Defender Day JSC Mashinistroitelny Zavod of TVEL Corporation was visited by a delegation of North fleet sailors.

The commander of a submarine cruiser captain II rank Oleg Tsibin presented to MSZ technical director Igor Petrov a nuclear submarine mockup and expressed gratitude of the submarine crew to its sponsors – workers of Electrostal nuclear plant.

MSZ started to sponsor submariners in 1994 implementing initiative of Minatom (Ministry for nuclear energy). Every year the delegation of the plant visits the sponsored on the Day of the Navy and submariners are honored guests at Mashinostroitelny Zavod.

Each summer the health camp accepts 130 children of sailors of the North fleet. Sailors were helped in providing material and technical support.

Captain II rank Arthur Prokopenko wished workers of the plant success in implementation of their capabilities, enhancing of volumes of orders and as a result the growth of workers wealth. The guests visited production sites and the museum of the plant.

For information. In 1957 the first nuclear submarine was launched in Russia. Its core was manufactured by Mashzavod in Electrostal. Currently the plant is mastering production of nuclear fuel for the first floating NPP in the World.