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The head of a shipyard that makes warships and submarines for the Russian Defense Ministry has died suddenly at the age of 66 – only the latest in a long line of powerful figures who have mysteriously croaked in recent months.
Alexander Buzakov was praised for overseeing some of Admiralty Shipyards’ “most complex orders” in a statement from United Shipbuilding Corporation, which announced his death on Saturday.
“The United Shipbuilding Corporation, Admiralty Shipyards and the entire national shipbuilding industry suffered an irreparable loss when Alexander Sergeevich Buzakov, General Director of Admiralty Shipyards, died at the age of 66,” the company said in a statement.
Russia’s TASS news agency reported that the company said his “early” death was “tragic,” but did not provide the cause of death or details of where he died.
The company noted that since taking the helm at one of Russia’s oldest and largest shipyards in 2011, Buzakov’s “main achievement” has been “maintaining and strengthening positions in the market for modern non-nuclear submarines, surface vessels and deep-sea equipment.”
In 2019, Buzakov told Interfax that Admiralty Shipyards was keen to begin production of diesel-powered submarines capable of firing Kalibr cruise missiles — the same ones Moscow has been using for months to indiscriminately kill civilians in Ukraine.
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