"The leaders of Yekaterinburg express condolences to relatives and friends in connection with the death of the former director of the Kalinin Machine-Building Plant Alexander Tizyakov," - said in a statement.
Tizyakov worked at MZiK from 1956 to 1991.
Under his leadership, the company created and put into service more than 20 types of anti-aircraft missile systems, including the S-300V anti-aircraft missile system.
In 1988, Tizyakov headed the Association of State Enterprises and Industrial, Construction, Transport and Communications of the USSR, and then became Vice-President of the Industrial Union of the USSR.
Earlier it was reported that the vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the rector of the South-Russian State Polytechnic University Vladimir Perederius died at the age of 59 years.