First Deputy Head of Russian Federation Government Sergey Ivanov arrived in Yekaterinburg on April 18, 2007. He was welcomed at Koltsovo airport by Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Petr Latyshev and Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel.

According to official press releases, Mr. Ivanov is going to chair a meeting of the Commission on Problems of the Defense-Industrial Complex under the Russian Federation Government; the meeting is mainly targeted at finding the ways of implementing the achievements of Russian defense industry in the country’s innovational economic development, that is, the ways of converting military technologies into civilian ones quickly and efficiently.

Mr. Ivanov is also planning to visit the premises of Uralmashzavod alongside with the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region and to conduct a press conference for the local media.