VNIIEM - All-Union Research Institute of Electromechanics

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

2025: Pavel Filippov appointed new general director of VNIIEM

Pavel Filippov was appointed to the post of General Director of JSC Scientific and Production Corporation Space Monitoring Systems, Information Management and Electromechanical Complexes named after A.G. Iosifyan (JSC Corporation VNIIEM). This was announced on June 6, 2025 by the state corporation for space activities Roscosmos, which includes VNIIEM. Read more here.

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.