Russian takes charge of Boeing's Russian development activities (290 words)

Published: 8/7/2000

Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group has announced the appointment of Sergey Kravchenko as Vice President - Cooperative Programs and Business Development for Russia and the CIS together with a new department to implement the Seattle based aircraft maker's activities in the area. Sergey Kravchenko will be in charge of the BCAG strategy development in Russia and the CIS, involving existing joint programs in new technologies, aircraft design, commercial aviation services and coordination of new business programs. Both the Boeing Technical Research Center and Boeing Design Centre in Moscow will report to Kravchenko. Sergey V. Kravchenko is the first native Russian to be appointed by Boeing as a Vice President and was previously Director for international engineering cooperation programs in Russia and the CIS. Programs according to Boeing, currently involving more than 500 engineers and researchers led from the Boeing Technical Research Center and Boeing Design Center located in Moscow, but involving personnel in a number of cities in the Russian Federation. Kravchenko has also been responsible for the BCAG raw materials procurement programs and development of new projects for Commercial Aviation Services in Russia and the CIS. He was the first deputy Director of the Boeing Technology and Design Center in Moscow and helped establish the first Boeing office operations in Russia and the CIS. Kravchenko was born in 1960 in Moscow and before joining Boeing in 1992; he was as a professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has also taught in Moscow and worked as a research consultant in Europe, the United States and Asia. Kravchenko holds 24 patents in various areas of engineering and has published more than 30 research papers.

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