On July 27, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans visited the Boeing office in Moscow and saw first-hand how Boeing and Russia are working together on a spectrum of commercial airplane programs. At left, Sergey Kravchenko, Boeing's vice president for Russia and the Confederation of Independent States, shows an aircraft part to Evans, center, and U.S. Ambassador for Russia, Alexander Vershbow, during a tour of the Boeing Engineering Design Center.