On February 18, 2011the IV industrial forum of Voronezh region was over in Voronezh.  Novovoronezh was represented at the forum by Head of Administration Sergey Mozgovoy, and Novovoronezh NPP – by its Director Vladimir Povarov.

After the official opening there was a conference of regional industrialists and businessmen and summarizing of the “Engineer of the Year – 2010” contest results. According to Governor of Voronezh region Alexey Gordeev, today, as ever, the driving force for recent developments and achievements in the production sphere is talented specialists, a great number of which, as the annual contest “Engineer of the Year” showed, live in Voronezh territory.

Among the winners of this contest there were employees of Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. In the “Engineering of the Young” category the 2-nd place was occupied by leading engineer of the thermal automation and measurements department Alexander Samodeenko, the 3-rd – by engineer-physicist of nuclear safety department Kira Zaletnykh. In the “Professional Engineers” category there were three Novovoronezh inhabitants among the winners: chief specialist of reactor department of the 5-th unit Maxim Sverdlov (the 2-nd place), Process Engineer of Desactivation Department Alexey Pyshnograyev and engineer of metrology department Vyacheslav Bashmakov (the 3-rd place). All employees of the nuclear power plant – the winners of the “Engineer of the Year – 2010” contest – are in strategic reserve of Novovoronezh NPP.

Within the framework of the forum there were seminars, “round tables”, interregional specialized exhibitions. NPP representatives took part in the “Ecology in the Industry” specialized exhibition and discussion of the Foundation of Environmental Policy of the Russian Federation up to 2030.