The results of the All-Russian contest “Engineer-2009” have been announced. After the first round of the contest the jury has decided to award specialists of Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC – Vitaliy Vitalyevich Brykov and Dmitriy Vyacheslavovich Cherdyntsev – the title of “Professional Engineer-2009” and handed in the corresponding certificates and symbol.

Vytaliy Vitalyevich Brykov – chief engineer of projects of the Engineering Centre of Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC. He was in charge of such works as “Feasibility study of carbon black production reconstruction at Sosnogorskiy gas processing plant”, investment plan for setting up Malositinskoe UGS, “Development of conceptual approaches to gas pipeline reconstruction engineering in conditions of compact planning of the Moscow Region”, etc.

Dmitriy Vyacheslavovich Cherdyntsev came to the Institute in 2006. In May 2009 he was appointed the Head of the Complex Engineering Division of the Engineering Centre of Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC. Today he is in charge of supervision over construction of the drilling site and shop for neutralization of drilling wastes at the Bovanenkovo OGCF as well as works on feasibility study of development of pilot testing facility of Gazprom VNIIGAZ; feasibility study of Kamennomysskoe-more gas field development and other important projects.

In the category “Young Engineers” the diploma “the winner of the first round of the All-Russian contest “Gengineer-2009” has been awarded to Mikhail Alexandrovich Vorontsov – research associate of the Laboratory of compressors and compression technologies of the Centre “Gas transmission systems and technologies”, Gazprom VNIIGAZ LLC. Mikhail graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, the Department “Gas turbine engines and units” of the Faculty “Power Engineering” in 2007, has been working in the Institute since 2008 and today deals with testing gas pumping equipment at Gazprom’s compressor stations.

M.A. Vorontsov is actively growing as a scientist – he is working on the PhD thesis on “Efficiency improvement of gas compressors for trunk gas transmission” and has published 7 scientific works.

We congratulate our specialists on their deserved success and wish them further scientific achievements and new creative goals!