The former head of a Russian nuclear submarine repair plant has been given a three-year suspended sentence for embezzling 29 million rubles ($916,000) in company funds.

A court in Russia's Pacific port city of Vladivostok also ordered Yury Shulgin to pay 550,000 rubles ($17,300) in damages.

Shulgin was head of the Zvezda plant in the eastern region of Primorye, a nuclear submarine repair and disposal facility, between 2001 and 2008.