ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARMS

The Energy of Success. July, 2006.

In the spring, the Publishing House "Arms and Technologies" made a presentation of three volumes of the Encyclopedia "Russia's Arms and Technologies. The XXI Century Encyclopedia". The presentation held at the President Hotel in Moscow covered the three new volumes: "Air and Ballistic Missile Defense", "Aircraft Armament and Avionics", and "Optoelectronic Systems and Laser Equipment", as well as the supplement book "Russia's Submarine Forces 1906 - 2006". The supplement book is timed to the centenary of Russian submarine forces. 11 volumes of the Encyclopedia have been published by today. Sergei Ivanov, the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation, is the general editor. Two more volumes should be published within this year.

The bank "Vneshtorgbank" is the general sponsor of the Encyclopedia since 2000. "The cooperation with defense enterprises and organizations is one of foreground Vneshtorgbank activities, and the bank share in the Russian defense industry has a steady up trend…", - told Valery Lukyanenko, Senior Vice President of Vneshtorgbank, in his speech on the presentation. According to his words, the total volume of guarantees and open export/import credits, issued by the bank during the last year, amounts to more than 2 billion dollars.