Sochi Games over, Vostochny spaceport is new priority - Rogozin
UGLEGORSK, Amur region. Feb 24 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has declared the increased significance of the Vostochny spaceport under construction in the Amur region.
"The Olympic Games are over, now this facility [the Vostochny spaceport] becomes a priority," Rogozin said.
Builders told the deputy prime minister that a deficit of skilled personnel was the main problem of the Vostochny project: the inferior quality of works slowed down the entire process.
"This means Spetsstroy must assign its own personnel for special-purpose sites and the civilian sites must employ those who built the APEC and Sochi facilities; they will have to be transferred. Only 5,000 people are building the spaceport, don't we have people in this country?" Rogozin asked.