Alexander Buzakov ,Head of Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards Dead on 24 Dec 2022

General Director of Admiralty Shipyards JSC Alexander Buzakov suddenly died on 24 Dec 2022 at the age of 66. Alexander Buzakov has headed Admiralty Shipyards since August 2011.

The death occurred a day after Buzakov presided over the launch of Velikie Luki, part of the new Lada-class submarines that he said formed the future not only for Admiralty Shipyards but for the Russian Navy due to their advance systems in automation, hull, maneuverability and compactness.

United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), the parent company of Admiralty Shipyards, announced his sudden death but did not reveal the cause.

Death of Alexander Buzakov was announced by Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards, which built least 15 submarines for Indian Navy on the day Russian MP Pavel Antov died in Odisha in India.

Biography Of Alexander Buzakov

Alexander Buzakov was born on July 7, 1956 in St. Petersburg. After graduating from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute in 1980 with a degree in Marine Power Plants, he began working at the Admiralty Shipyards OJSC, where over the course of 23 years he worked his way up from a technologist to the chief engineer of the enterprise.

From 2004 to 2007, he held the position of General Director of OJSC Severnaya Verf Shipyard. A year later, Alexander Sergeevich became director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant.

Since 2008, Buzakov has headed Western Shipbuilding Center OJSC, a subholding of United Shipbuilding Corporation OJSC.

Three years later, in July 2011, he returned to the Admiralty Shipyards to the position of chief engineer, and since August he has been temporarily acting as general director of the enterprise.

By the decision of the general meeting of shareholders of JSC Admiralty Shipyards on July 2, 2012, Alexander Buzakov was approved as the general director of the enterprise.

Over more than 30 years of experience in shipbuilding, with the direct participation and leadership of Alexander Buzakov, dozens of submarines and surface ships, as well as civilian vessels of various classes and purposes, have been built and commissioned, including those that have no analogues in domestic and global shipbuilding.

AWARDS OF ALEXANDER BUZAKOV

Laureate of the Russian Federation Government Prize in the field of science and technology, 2003

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree

Medal “300 years of the Russian Navy”

Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg”

Sanctions imposed by Ukraine on Alexander Buzakov

Alexander Buzakov was sanctioned by Ukraine under the following names and reasons by Ukraine,

БУЗАКОВ Олександр Сергійович
БУЗАКОВ Александр Сергеевич
BUZAKOV Alexander Sergeevich

Reason for imposing sanctions

A CEO of ADMIRALTEISKIE VERFI JSC. A leader in tanker and submarine shipbuilding. The ships and vessels built at the company are part of the military and civilian fleets of Russia and many foreign countries, conquer the North Pole and conduct scientific research in Antarctica. In 2016, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and Admiralty Shipyards signed a contract for the construction of two ice-class patrol vessels of Project 23550 for the benefit of the Navy.

In 2021, Admiralty Shipyards JSC transferred a warship, the Magadan project 636.3 large submarine, to the Russian Navy. ADMIRALTY DOCKYARDS JSC is subject to sanctions imposed by the EU, the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, and New Zealand. Thus, by holding the position, this person contributes to the actions of the government and President of the Russian Federation Putin V.V., who have prepared and are waging, contrary to the UN Charter, a war, combined with the commission of a crime – genocide, aimed at eliminating Ukraine as a sovereign member of the UN.

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