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IES-Holding Teams Won the 1st and 3rd Place in the All-Russian Competition of HPP Operations Staff

The operations stuff teams of IES-Holding's generation divisions won the 1^st, 3^rd and 4^th places in the All-Russian competition of HPP operations staff held under the auspices of Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. The official awarding ceremony took place on 11 September 2009, in Essentuki.

The 1^st prize winner and an indisputable leader of the competition was the team of Vladimir HPP-2 (Center Generation Division) under the leadership of the company's Deputy Chief Engineer Sergey Prozorov. The team of Volga Automobile Plant HPP (Volga Generation Division) won the 3^rd place, and the team of Sosnogorskaya HPP (Komi branch) of the Urals Generation Division won the honorable 4^th place. This year, 11 teams took part in the All-Russian competition.

‘All three IES-Holding's teams showed good results. Smart, well-prepared, with a strong team spirit - real professionals! I'm very glad that the company management devotes so much attention to the professional standards of its personnel,' the competition arbiter Valery Lyushazhun (Deputy Director of Yuzhtekhnadzor) said.

‘I'm very happy about the results. It took us great efforts to prepare the teams for the competition. And it was worth while doing. All three IES-Holding teams showed very good results with a minimal difference in score.  We shall maintain this tradition and I hope that IES-Holding teams will got the first three places in the next competition,' says Andrey Shishkin, First Vice President of IES-Holding.

The competition pursues the following main goals: to reduce accidents caused by staff misoperation, increase professional standards, promote best practice.

The competition is aimed at operations staff of heat and power plants with lateral links. Unlike unit-type plants, all boilers at heat and power plants feed the common steam chest which powers all turbines. Such plants are the backbone of power generating facilities of all regional power generating companies of IES-Holding, including Center Generation Division (TGC-6), Urals Generation Division (TGC-5 and TGC-9) and Volga Generation Division (VoTGC).

Participants of the competition had to overcome nine levels showing their knowledge of normative-technical documents, fire safety rules, readiness to eliminate accidents, technical knowledge, emergency preparedness and readiness to provide first aid.