The board of directors of Irkut Corporation decided on October 3 to reduce the management board from 13 to nine directors. Sergei Vasilenko, production director at Irkut's Irkutsk Aircraft Plant (IAZ); IAZ economics and finance director Alexei Polyakov; IAZ technical director Alexander Sergunov; and Alexander Svischenko, Irkut vice president for coordinating production and production cooperation have left the management board.