4 Oct 2012 19:17

Russian Defense Ministry to sign 140-bln ruble contract for 39 Ilyushin Il-476 planes - Putin

ULYANOVSK. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The Russian Defense Ministry will sign a contract on purchasing a large shipment of Ilyushin Il-476 transport aircraft on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

"We have agreed that the Defense Ministry should now be signing a contract for buying 39 planes costing in total nearly 140 billion rubles. I would like to point out that this is the largest contract in the Russian aircraft manufacturing industry's not very long history," Putin said at a conference dealing with a consolidated government-funded order for domestically produced commercial and transport aircraft for the period up to 2020.