In Memory of Russian Designers of Kundankulam Nuclear Reactors ( Tu-134 Crashed in Russia on 21st June, 2011 )

1. Summer Solstice at Stonehenge* on 21st June 2011. 

2. On 21st June 2011 Tu-134 Russian Airliner crashed
in Petrozavodsk ( in Russia's Republic of Karelia)
less than a km short of the runway

Summer solstice in Northern Hemisphere
The day we lost Russian Designers dear


When sun rays touched the northern most limit
And north of Equator all places well lit


Yearly a day of festive season
But plane crashed and became a mourning reason


Designers Ryzhov**, Banyuk and Trunov among killed many
Top three officials of famous Gidropress Company

3. Gidropress Company Then*** ( 1946 )

4. And Gidropress Now**** ( 2011 )

Who designed Kundankulam Power Project in Tamil Nadu
And all Indians pay due respect to them too


Now blame we the pilots and blame we the weather
But high time we designed safer air travel rather.



Pictorial sources :-
1. neshtoto.com   
2. arsipberita.com     map
3. gidropress.podolsk.ru  company
4. gidropress.podolsk.ru.


Notes
* The northern hemisphere celebrated the summer solstice on June 21, 2011. Stonehenge, near Salisbury, England, is host to a summer solstice celebration every year. The stone structure was erected between about 3000 BC and 1600 BC, according to the Associated Press.

** Their full name and designation are as follows - Gidropress CEO and Designer General Sergei Ryzhov, Deputy CEO and Chief Designer Gennady Banyuk and Chief Designer Nikolai Trunov

*** OKB “GIDROPRESS” was established by the decree of Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR on January 28, 1946 and by the order of the People’s Commissar of the USSR heavy engineering on February 01, 1946.

**** Today the company is focused mainly on elaboration of WWER rector plant designs of a wide power range from 300 to 1700 MW.  The WWER reactor plants constructed according to the OKB “GIDROPRESS” designs are operated at 18 nuclear power plants in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and China.

  Today OKB “GIDROPRESS” is the only company in the world whose reactor plant designs are implemented simultaneously at five units abroad: Kudankulam NPP in India, Bushehr NPP in Iran, Belene NPP in Bulgaria. Each of the designs is unique, and each of the nuclear power plants has its own peculiarities. All designs have the following common features: high quality standards of work and maximum requirements for the safety level  (gidropress.podolsk.ru.).