New General Director to be elected (189 words)

Published: 8/2/2001

Following the death of Alexander Mozzherin, General Director of Tolmachevo Airport in Novosibirsk, the airport's Board of Directors have called an EGM on 15th September 2001, to elect his replacement. Mozzherin was just one year into a four-year contract at the time of his death. Vyacheslav Shatalin, Technical Director of the airport, is currently acting as General Director and applications for the post are being accepted until 14th August 2001. According to Alexander Borodin, Chairman of the Tolmachevo Airport Board, The ministry has not yet decided on its candidate. However, Borodin is likely to emerge as the new General Director, given that he is also Head of the Transport and Communication department at the Ministry of State Property, which owns 51% of the airport. Borodin was recently ejected from the Aeroflot board. The new General Director's major - and some say, impossible - challenge will be to attract investors to the airport, which has been removed from the privatisation list, but is trying to raise funding through a series of commercial ventures with minority partners.

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