Valentyn Zghursky

During World War II as a teenager he worked on Soviet railways. After graduating the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1954 as an electrical engineer, in 1950s-1970s Zghursky worked at the Soviet Defense company "Radiopribor" (Radio Instrument) in Kyiv making there a career and eventually becoming its general director (1973-1979). Radiopribor was also known as the Korolyov Production Union. After dissolution of the Soviet Union, Radiopribor was transformed into a Meridian Factory in 1994. ==Honours and awards==

• Hero of Socialist Labour (1981) • Order of Lenin (1981, 1986) • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1966, 1971) • Order of the October Revolution (1976) • Order of the Patriotic War (1985, 1st class) • Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (2000, 3rd class) • Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (2007, 5th class) • Order of Merit (1997, 3rd class) • Order for Courage (1999, 3rd class) • State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology ==See also==