MINSK, 11 December (BelTA) – OAO Peleng enhances Belarus’ status as a space power. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made the relevant statement during a solemn meeting timed to the 50th anniversary of the enterprise, BelTA has learned.
Roman Golovchenko described Peleng Company as a unique enterprise not only for Belarus but the world’s manufacturing sector. “In Soviet time it incorporated a very big potential. A significant number of products were designed and batch produced. Certainly, while meeting conditions of special secrecy and exacting standards of the military industrial complex. Then complicated times fell upon the enterprise: perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In these conditions the enterprise managed not only to endure but to preserve its core business. In independent Belarus the enterprise gradually transformed into the public joint-stock company that we know now.”
The next important milestone in the history of the enterprise was the year 1998 when Vladimir Pokryshkin became the company’s Director General. “He and his team of likeminded individuals spurred the development of the enterprise for the next two decades. This man pushed the company to the international market, laid the foundation for development. Under his leadership an entire series of the most important national and international R&D programs were completed, including programs in such an important field as space exploration,” the prime minister noted.
The Belarusian head of government underlined that at present Peleng is the undisputable leader in the post-Soviet space. It is also a world-class leader in the development and manufacturing of universal sighting systems, fire control systems, and other kinds of special equipment. “The enterprise makes a most important contribution to enhancing the status of our Motherland as a space power by designing and manufacturing survey instruments for topography in outer space, instruments for trajectory measurements, and many other things. In last few decades the company diversified its product portfolio by venturing into allied trades: development and production of the most important meteorological equipment, various security systems, forensic equipment,” he pointed out.
Since 1994 when the Peleng enterprise became a public joint-stock company, it has received over 300 patents for various inventions, many of which have been incorporated into manufacturing processes. “Economic performance indicators, particularly those of the last few years, represent a model our entire manufacturing sector should emulate. The enterprise continues actively increasing the scale and the volume of production. The number of jobs is rising. And I emphasize they are highly paid ones. More than half of the company’s employees are highly qualified engineers and technicians. They are the elite of our manufacturing sector. But you also work on greatly rejuvenating the workforce by raising a new generation of workers. Your cooperation with the country’s higher education institutions deserves attention. Laureates of various high awards are the company’s pride,” Roman Golovchenko emphasized.
He stressed that all the accomplishments of the enterprise stem from titanic work of all the employees. Roman Golovchenko added that Peleng has always been strong thanks to intellect, persistence, and professionalism, thanks to the tightly knit team, their desire to achieve results, and thanks to endless diligence. “I am convinced that the enterprise will stay true to its mission and will continue making the world’s best products by anticipating the customer’s desires, by expanding its presence on the world market, and by making our country famous on all continents with its products.”
Roman Golovchenko also presented the prime minister’s commendation letters to Peleng employees.
Peleng is a leading design and engineering enterprise of Belarus’s optoelectronic industry. The enterprise was established in 1974 when the design department of the S.I. Vavilov Minsk Mechanical Plant was reorganized into the Central Design Bureau Peleng. In 1994 the Central Design Bureau Peleng was reorganized into the public joint-stock company (OAO) Peleng.
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