The offices of the Russian Space Agnecy in Moscow. The RSA manages a number of defense programs as well as civilian space programs. Visitors are greeted by a guard in fatigues holding a machine gun.

Space Centers & Related Facilities

Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Zvezdnyy Gorodok (Star City)
Korolev Mission Control Center at Podlipk (TsUP)
Military Space Forces - Outer Space Monitoring System (SKKP)
Tracking & Control Stations
NKIK - Ground Command and Measurment Complex (Tracking Facilities for Military Space Forces)
Computing and Coordinating Center (CCC) (Tracking Facilities for TsUP)
Kazakstan Search and Rescue Complex, in Tselinograd and Dzhezkazgan
 
Baykonur Cosmodrome and Test Range
Baykonur Radio Frequencies
Plesetsk Cosmodrome and Test Range
Kasputin Yar Cosmodrome and Test Range
 
LII (Flight Research Institute) - TsAGI & industry flight test center - Buran flight testing
 

Space Industry & Centers

See also:

 Federation of American Scientists

Russian Space Industry

by Maxim Tarasenko

and

VSA067 - Russian Space Agency Enterprises

and Organizations (Jan. 1997) by Sergey Voevodin


These entities are main contractors, sub-contractors, major component suppliers, 
design institutes and production plants. This list excludes most academic 
research institutes and users of space data. Only Russian or Russian owned 
business are listed here. As time passes the list becomes out of date, organizations 
close, merge, etc. Many of the listed entities have been moving to more consumer
industry, so take the list with a grain of salt.
Where Russian names are popularly known they are used otherwise translations are used.

 (Plain text is from: Sevig Directory of Russian Space Industry 1994-95)

(Bold is from: European Space Report Russian Space Directory 1994)

 Abbreviations:

AKO = Aerospace Company
NPO = Scientific Production Association
KB = Design Bureau
OKB = Speciallized Design Bureau
NII = Scientific Research Institute
NPAO = Scientific Production Joint Stock Company
AO = Joint Stock Company
RKK = Rocket and Spacecraft Corporation
LII = Flight Research Institute
GP = State Enterprise
GNPP = State Scientific Production Enterprise
GKNPTs = State Scientific Production Space Center
NTTs = Scientific Technical Center
NITs = Scientific Research Center
MASH = Machine Building

Moscow Region & Korolev (Kaliningrad)

RSA (Russian Space Agency)
Glavkosmos - international trading arm of RSA
Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute (TsAGI)
Agat Enterprise
Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI)
NPO Automation and Instrument Engineering (imeni Pilyugin)
Pilyugin Production Plant - manufacturer for NPO Automation and Instrument Engineering
NII Aviation Equipment
IMBP - Institute of Bio-Medical Problems
NII KhiMMASH
NII Chemical and Civil Engineering
KB Chemical Transport Engineering
AO CryogenMASH
Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences - space probe insturment & mission development
NPAO Elas
NPP Pan Russian Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanical Systems (VNIIEM)
NII Electromechanics
RKK Energia
NII Food Condentrate and Speciallized Food Technology (PP & SPT)
Gagarin Center for Cosmonaut Training (TsPK)
KB Gerneral Engineering (OM)
NPO Geofizika
LII Gromov
KB Chemical Engineeering (KhiMMASH)
NII Thermal Processes (imeni Keldysh)
GKNPTs Khrunichev & KB Salyut
NTTs Komplex
AO Kompozit - materials development
NII Applied Mechanics
GNPP Kvant
NPO Lavochkin - satellite & space probe manufacturer
NPO Machine Building (MASH)
Central Scientific Research Institute for Machine Building (TsNIIMASH)
NPO Molniya - aviation and Buran development
KB Mars
AO Radio Communications (MNIIRS)
AO NPO Nauka
NII Automated Devices (formerly Parachute Design)
NPO Planeta - meteorological systems for statllites
NPO Energomash (Power Engineering)
NII Precision Instruments - small communications satellites
Priroda GTsNII
NII Radio - RF systems for ground stations, data communications systems
AO Radiofizika
TsNII RTC (Robotics & Technical Cybernetics)
Ministry of Defense - Aerospace Search and Rescue Administration
Moscow State Technical University (MSTU)
NITs Space Documentation
NII Space Instrument Engineering
GP NPO Tekhnomash
GO Tekhnotron
NII Television
KB Transport Engineering
CNII OKB Vympel
NPP Zvezda
NPO AIPS
NPO Astra
VIAM (Institute of Aviation Materials)
AO Aviapribor - navigation intsruments
GPO Aviation Systems - Burlak
NII Aviation Technology
Babakin Research Center - space probe instrments
KB Launch Complex Equipment (Barmin KB) - launch pad designers
TsIAM (Aviation Engine Building) - high speed jet engines
NII Biotechnika - spacecraft life support systems
IATAN (Instutite of Control Problems) - automation systems for spacecraft & rockets
COSPAS-SARSAT Rescue Center
VTI (Heat Engineering Institute) - solar power systems
NPO Eksmash - Block-D stage development
NPO Elas - communications equip.
VNIIEM (Electro Mechanics) - Meteor satellites
OKB Fakel - thermo-electric rockets
OKB Gorizont - ground handling systems
NII Instrument Building - computers & radar
Interkosmos
Informkosmos - satellite communications networks
Intersputnik - satellite communications networks
Morsvyazsputnik Enterprise - mobile satellite communications networks
NPO ISTOK - satellite communications components
KB Iskra - solid rockets & escape systems
IPM (Institute of Applied Mathmatics imeni Keldysh) - computation center
Moscow Computer Center - computation center
NPO Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) - nuclear power systems
Institute of Atomic Energy imeni Kurchatov - nuclear power systems
Power Engineering Research Institute (ENIN) - solar power components
NPO Kvant - solar power systems
NPO Vils - metallurgy development
TsNIIMash - spacecraft testing and development
NPO Mashinostroyeniye - Defense systems, rocket & spacecraft developer
NII Nauchnyy - space materials processing instruments
NPO Polyot - defense and missile systems (Zenit)
Institute of Radio Enginering & Electronics - satellite & space probe instruments
NPO Rotor - defense and space electronic control systems
NPO Saturn - rocket turbopumps & gas generators
NPO Soyuz - rocket engine research
NII Space Instrument Building - geodetic satellites
SPLAV - space materials processing equipment
NPO Stekloplastik - material development (Energia & Buran)
NPO Vega - radar and microwave systems
Votkinsk Machine Building Plant - SS-20, SS-25 production plant
NPO Zvezda - Aerospace life support systems & ejection systems

Nauchnyy

Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
 

Yekaterinburg

Kalinin Machine Building Plant - rocket propellant systems
KB Start - test facilities and parts production plant
Sverdlovsk Oxygen Machine Building Plant - liquid oxygen plants for launch complexes

Biysk

Biysk Special Chemicals Plant - solid rocket propellant
OKB Nadiradze - solid rocket development
RKK Energia - rocket test site

Krasnoyarsk

NPO Applied Mechanics - communications satellites
KB Reshetnev - satellite design
GP Krasnoyarsk Engineering Plant (KRASMASHZAVOD)
NII Engineering Technology

St. Petersburg

OKB BIOFIZPRIBOR
AO LOMO
NII Monitoring & Control Instruments (KP)
Russian Institute for Radionavigation and Time (RIRV)
Vavilov State Optical Instituite
SKB Analytical Instrument Building
NPO Source - spacecraft batteries

Voronezh

GPO Saturn
KB Khimavotomatiki (Chemical Automatics)- RD-0120, and small rocket engine development
Voronezh Mechanical Plant - rocket engine builder (RD-0120, etc)
NPO Elecronika - Kurs docking system components

Chelyabinsk

NII Germes
KB Makeyev

Orenburg

Orenburg Maching Building Plant - supplier of major missile components and missiles
PO Strela - manufacturing center for NPO Mashinostroyeniye

Perm

NPO Iskra
NII Composite Materials
NPP Aviadvigatel - jet, scramjet, and small rocket engines
RKK Energia - rocket engine test center

Izhevsk

GP Izhevskiy Motozavod

Rostov

OKB Orbita

Obninsk

IEM (Institute of Experimental Meterology) - meterological instruments

Omsk

AKO Polyot - engine manufacturer (RD-170)

Samara

TsSKB (Central Speciallized Design Bureau) -Progress
RKK Energia- associate with TsSKB-Progress
KB Photon - earth sensing satellite equipment
NPO Trud (Kuznetsov KB) - jet engines and NK rockets

Kaluga

NITs Space Systems Engineering

Saratov

NPO Almaz

Tomsk

Institute of Atmospheric Optics

Nizhnyy Novgorod

RKK Energia - prototype production & modification center

Kazan

Opto-Mechanical Production Plant - optical instruments for spacecraft

Baykonur, Kazakstan

RKK Energia - Vibration Test Center

Government & Commissions

State Commission for Flight Testing of Manned Space Complexes

Interdepartmental Expert Commission on Space

State Committee for Defense Related Industries

 


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