Eugueny Zhukov, who previously held the position of managing director of the Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter (KrAZ), was appointed general director of the Urals aluminium smelter (UAZ). Under Mr. Zhukov’s management, KrAZ has successfully completed a large-scale environmental modernisation programme. This experience will be very useful for further technological development and implementation of advanced production technologies at UAZ.

Mr. Zhukov will be replaced by Eugueny Nikitin, the former managing director of the Sayanogorsk smelter (SAZ). While being the head of SAZ, Mr. Nikitin achieved prominent results in the technological development of the smelter. He contributed markedly to the increase in the smelter’s output and the share of high added value products, as well as to the implementation of the production system that allowed for production cost reductions and highly efficient utilisation of resources to be achieved.

Meanwhile, Boris Smolyanitsky, who had been managing UAZ for nine years, was appointed adviser to Head of the Aluminium Division. During his time at the Urals smelter, a number of very difficult activities have been completed to modernise production and establish efficient material support. The Aluminium Division will benefit greatly from Mr. Smolyanitsky’s vast experience and skills.

Anton Savchenko, who had been the financial director of the Sayanogorsk smelter since 2006 after joining the smelter in 1996, will be acting managing director of SAZ.

‘RUSAL’s personnel rotation programme aims to proliferate the best practices among the Company’s production facilities’, noted Alexey Arnautov, Head of RUSAL’s Aluminium Division. ‘Our plants today have an objective to start operating as independent business units. This new approach to management of our facilities and a new incentives system will stimulate the plants to improve their performance. The latest management reshuffle will allow for the experience accumulated by the managers to be used in the most efficient way’, he said.

Biographies

Eugueny Zhukov was born in 1968 in Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan. In 1992, he graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical Institute majoring in chemistry and biology. In 2001, he received a second university degree from the Krasnoyarsk Academy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold majoring in non-ferrous metallurgy. Eugueny’s aluminium career started in 1993, when he joined KrAZ as an anode operator. He has since completed a long journey to become a deputy production director at the Novokuznetsk smelter in 2001, head of a reduction shop at NkAZ in 2002, head of the reduction area at SAZ in May 2005, managing director of SAZ in November 2005, and managing director of KrAZ in 2008.

Eugueny Nikitin was born in 1966 in Chadan in the Tuba Republic. In 1989, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers as an electrical engineer. In July 1993, he joined the Sayanogorsk smelter as a pot operator. After a short period of time he was appointed reduction shop supervisor and then senior supervisor in 2000, and head of the production unit of the reduction area in 2003. From 2004 to 2006 he worked at RUSAL’s Engineering and Construction Company as head of the Reduction Area Project. In February 2006, Eugueny was appointed head of the reduction area at SAZ, and managing director of SAZ in 2008.

Boris Smolyanitsky was born in 1946 in Kamensk-Uralsk. Following his graduation from the Kamensk-Uralsk Aluminium College in 1965, he started working as a design engineer at a trading equipment plant. Boris joined the Urals aluminium smelter in 1967 where he held various positions, from an overhaul supervisor in the heat and water supply shop to a head of shop. In 1975, he graduated from the mechanical department of the Urals State Technical University. During the period from 1989 to 1996, his positions included head of material support, deputy director for general affairs, and commercial director. In 1996, Boris was appointed deputy general director of UAZ and then general director of the smelter in November 2000.

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