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Our dear veterans, participants in the Great Patriotic War,
both on the frontline and on the home front, children of the
wartime!
Dear colleagues and friends

With profound gratitude towards the generation of our forefathers
and fathers, I wholeheartedly congratulate everyone on the 75th
anniversary of the Victory!
The Victory Day is a great holiday, which brings together all the
generations of our country. Every family has their own soldiers and
heroes. And the memory of them is cherished and held sacred. We
remember acts of valor of our heroic warriors who defended liberty and
independence of our Motherland. We remember how many of them died
in the war and did not come back home! We are proud of their courage
and fortitude, perseverance, dedicated service to their country, faith in
the victory! Today, they march along with us in the monolithic Immortal
Regiment, with their impressive faces in black-and-white photos and
lists of fronts and awards.
An invaluable contribution to the Victory was made by the staff of
our company. It was in special design bureaus for convicts of the
Stalin’s time that S.P. Korolev was working on the development of Pe-2
and Tu-2 bombers and innovative jet engines for aircraft, and V.P.
Glushko was in charge of work to develop engines for aircraft, including
rocket engines. The personnel manager at OKB-1, and later, for many
years, the deputy general director of NPO Energia for personnel G.M.
Paukov went through the Japanese and Great Patriotic Wars as a senior
instructor of torpedo men on a submarine in the Pacific fleet. The
designer of spacecraft, cosmonaut K.P. Feoktistov went on
reconnaissance missions when he was just a 16-year old teenager.
Some of the rank-and-file employees of the company travelled the
roads of war, fought on the frontline, hammered the enemy on land, in
the water, and in the air! Many people fought for the Victory by working
day and night on the shop floor making superior zenith and tank guns
and artillery systems.
We will never forget that out of the five prestigious awards, the
first Order of Lenin was given to RSC Energia during war in 1944 for
guns designed by Grabin, which would come to be called the Weapons
of Victory.
Fewer and fewer of those who fought on the fronts of the Great
Patriotic War, survived the Siege of Leningrad, and did their utmost
working on the home front remain amongst us. Very few of the Great
Patriotic War participants still remain at Energia: 13 people at the
Corporation and 13 at ZEM manufacturing plant. Only 7 survivors of the
Siege: 6 people at the Corporation and 1 at the plant. There are 16
former prisoners of fascist concentration camps, 12 former workers at
ZEM and 4 corporate employees. Among our staff there are somewhat
higher numbers of workers on the home front, who had to start their
working careers when they were still mere children. There are 92 of
them at the Corporation and 161 at ZEM. Our deepest gratitude to you,
heroes of war!
Dear veterans, you have to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the
Victory under the difficult conditions of self-isolation, but are there any
circumstances in the world that could break your will and enthusiasm for
life? Keep your chin up, do not lose your optimism, be in good health! I
wish you love and care of your dear and near ones, peaceful skies,
happiness, and prosperity! Let your generation of victors remain an
example for the future generations! Congratulations on the Victory Day!
General director of RSC Energia N.N. Sevastianov