Sukhoi Co. will present Superjet-100 at the 12th Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.
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Sukhoi Superjet to Be Presented at St. Petersburg Economic Forum
Sukhoi Co. General Director Mikhail Pogosyan will present regional Sukhoi Superjet-100 to participants of St. Petersburg Economic Forum, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the company’s press service.
During the presentation, Sukhoi will show the exhibits telling about creation and the first flight of Sukhoi Superjet-100, which was made in May.
Mikhail Pogosyan will also attend Russia’s-U.S. Round Table that will be dedicated to strategic economic partnership of Russia and the United States. Sukhoi chief will speak about the company’s experience in creating regional passenger jets in the environment of the broadest international cooperation that has had no precedent in Russia’s history of aircraft construction.
Sukhoi Superjet-100 that is the first crucially new jet of Russia since the collapse of the USSR will replace obsolete Tu-134, Yak-42 in the country and be exported overseas. The project worth is estimated at around $1.4 billion.
St. Petersburg hosts the 12th International Economic Forum June 6 through 8. Representatives of the business, economic and academic elite of the world will focus on issues of global economy and the role of Russia in them.
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