Russian designers have certainly taken advantage of anything they could learn from the West.

It worked, just as its Russian designers had intended.

One of them was a Russian designer, Anatole Vasilinsky.

"We've tried to predict everything," Viktor Legostaev, a top Russian designer for the mission, said in an interview.

This was a potentially risky decision to replace the human loader by an electro-hydraulic automatic system, since the technology was new to Russian designers.

Sonya Dyakova (born 1975) is a Russian graphic designer.

Moreover she was the first Russian designer whose collection appeared on a Vogue cover.

Mr. Arngoldt agreed that art trumped commerce for years here, and to some Russian designers it always will.

Russian designers, for example, created a new overhead arch beam that holds up airplane storage bins.

These days Russian designers can choose from a wealth of materials, but many are short on knowledge and experience.