NPO Avtomatiki General Director Shalimov tenders his resignation
YEKATERINBURG. May 5 (Interfax-AVN) - NPO Avtomatiki General Director Leonid Shalimov has tendered his resignation, the enterprise's press service told Interfax.
"Mikhail Trapeznikov, his first deputy for science, is now the acting General Director of NPO Avtomatiki," it said.
The press service could not say whether Shalimov's resignation had been accepted.
Earlier reports said that NPO Avtomatiki General Director Shalimov had been suspended for the period of inquiry into the contingency, which happened during the first launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome. The suspension was ordered by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed, last Thursday, that Russian President Vladimir Putin had reprimanded Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin, and Roscosmos head Igor Komarov, and had declared the incompetence of NPO Avtomatiki General Director Shalimov.