Mikhail Pogosyan has been elected as the head of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft CJSC board of directors.
In 1979 he graduated with honors from the aircraft manufacturer faculty of the Moscow Aviation Institute and started his career at P.O. Sukhoi engineering plant, where he works up until today. He started as a designer engineer and then held the posts of the First Deputy Chief Designer (1992-1998), Chairman of Directors Board of the Design Bureau (1995-1999) and, eventually, General Director of the `Sukhoi Design Bureau` (starting from May 1999).
