[6] Babkin was born in 1971 in Miass (Chelyabinsk region; USSR) in the family of the State Rocket Center engineers.

[9] The company includes 20 enterprises located in the Rostov region, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Canada and the United States.

The main shareholders of Novoe Sodruzhestvo are its three founders and managing directors: Babkin, Dmitry Udras and Yuri Ryazanov.

When Vladimir Putin gathered his advisers for a meeting on the development of regional industry earlier this year, they met at Rostselmash.

[19] On 8 October 2006, he was elected the deputy of Novgorod Regional Duma of the fourth convocation in the Free Russia party list, which he headed (11.03%).

/"Razumnaya promyshlennaya politika, ili Kak nam vyyti iz krizisa"/ (Moscow: 2008.