Former director of Rostselmash plant has died Yuri Peskov, who was attacked in his house in the summer of 2020. This was announced by the Governor of the Rostov Region Vasily Golubev in ” VKontakte “.
“Honorary citizen of the Rostov region, Hero of Socialist Labor Yuri Alexandrovich Peskov has passed away. His long career is inextricably linked with Rostselmash, with the agro-industrial complex of the whole country,” he wrote.
Golubev also listed Peskov’s merits: the production of the Niva machine and combines of the Don family, general reconstruction and equipping Rostselmash with modern technology. In addition, he played a huge role in the social development of Rostov-on-Don, the head of the region noted.
The politician called Peskov’s death a grievous loss, since the Don land and all of Russia are supported by such people.
The 83-year-old former director of Rostselmash was attacked in July. The man was wounded and taken to hospital. It was reported that after the attack, Peskov had amnesia; he did not even remember his own name. His sister was also killed in the attack. There are traces of torture on the woman’s body.
On suspicion of an attack on a pensioner’s house three people were detained : two of them are natives of the Azov district of the Rostov region born in 1992 and 1994, their third accomplice is a resident of St. Petersburg born in 1982.
Peskov became the head of Rostselmash in 1978 and remained the director of the plant for almost 20 years. In 1983-1984 he worked as Deputy Minister of Tractor and Agricultural Engineering of the USSR. Recently, he lived in a village on the shores of the Azov Sea, 100 kilometers from Rostov-on-Don.