The Emergencies Ministry plane brought back 39 Interenergoservis employees.
"We have evacuated 39 persons with no more than 20 left," an Emergencies Ministry official told RIA Novosti.
Evacuation of Anatoly Korenkov, the seriously wounded Interenergoservis employee, was not allowed by the doctors. Staying together with him in Baghdad are his 10 colleagues, who will complete the company's urgent tasks at the facilities under construction.
Anatoly Korenkov is still in a grave condition. He was wounded on May 26 as a result of a terrorist attack on the bus carrying the Russian company's employees to the Ad-Dora facility work site near Baghdad.
Bashir Malsagov, head of the Consular Department of the Russian Embassy in Iraq told RIA Novosti that with regard to the complicated operation in the American hospital in Baghdad, the doctors did not recommend to take the wounded man to Moscow by plane on Friday.
The operation dealt in many ways with the danger of some vital organs getting infected, explained the Russian diplomat. Despite the patient's grave condition, the doctors hope the situation will change within two or three days, he added.
The first group of the Russian specialists was evacuated from Iraq last week after a bus carrying the company's employees was fired at by unidentified people in Baghdad leaving two Russians killed and five wounded.
The Interenergoservis works in Iraq under four contracts. Repair and maintenance contracts for the Dora, South Baghdad and Al-Mussaib thermal power plants were signed January 20, March 7 and March 10, respectively. Another contract, with the Interim Governing Council, to supply electronic units to the Nassiriyah thermal plant was signed on March 7. The company's contracts amount to about $30 million.
Alexander Rybinsky, the company's executive director, told RIA Novosti, "We announced overall evacuation of workers from Iraq."
According to Mr. Rybinsky, after the Interenergoservis employees come back to Moscow and check in at the hotels, they will be roll-called. "If someone does not return to Moscow, an investigation will be launched," he noted.
