VNIIEM - All-Union Research Institute of Electromechanics
Owners:
Roscosmos (Federal Space Agency)
VNIIEM Corporation is an institute plant in which scientific, design and production units are simultaneously deployed. Since the beginning of the space era, when the country took the first steps in space exploration and created its own nuclear missile shield, VNIIEM, as the parent organization, actively participated in the development of electrical equipment for launch vehicles, in particular the famous R-7, with which the first artificial Earth satellite was launched into orbit, and then the first manned spacecraft "Vostok."
History
2022: Ex-assistant prosecutor of Moscow received 4 years in prison for a bribe from the leadership of the space corporation
Former assistant to the Moscow prosecutor Elena Kishkurno received 4 years in prison for a bribe from the leadership of the space "VNIIEM Corporation." The corresponding verdict (it also includes deprivation of the title of junior adviser to justice and a fine of 5 million rubles) in July 2022 was issued by the Meshchansky Court of Moscow. Read more here.