Yuriy Boyko and Nikolay Azarov

Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Boyko (right) and Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolay Azarov during a ceremony of launch of the project "Modernization and reconstruction of the main gas pipeline "Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod", in Boguslav (Kiev region), on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Ukraine has begun the first phase of the project "Modernization and reconstruction of the main gas pipeline "Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod ". The length of the main gas pipeline "Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod" on the territory of Ukraine is 1160 km, its capacity - 27.9 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Photo by Andrey Skakodub / UNIAN