TsNIImash - Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering

History

2025

The deputy head was accused of bribes and fraud worth 100 million rubles

On February 20, 2025, it became known that Ivan Yudakov, Deputy General Director of TsNIImash (head institute of Roscosmos), was charged with fraud and bribery. By decision of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, the man was sent under house arrest. Read more here.

Appointment to the post of head Vasily Titov

In mid-February 2025, the head was changed at the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (JSC TsNIImash). The head institute of Roscosmos was headed by Vasily Titov instead of Sergei Koblov, who ended the term of the employment contract, the state corporation specified. Read more here

2024: a fraudster who stole 300 million rubles during the reconstruction of the Roscosmos Mission Control Center received 9 years in prison

On November 21, 2024, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Armen Kobalyan, an entrepreneur and subcontractor of the Mission Control Center (TSUP). For fraud on an especially large scale and money laundering, he received 9 years in prison. Read more here.

2023: Those who stole 300 million rubles from Roscosmos during the construction of the mission control center received 7 years in prison

In February 2023, the Khoroshevsky court Moscow sentenced in the case of embezzlement of more than 300 million rubles budget funds during the reconstruction of the buildings of the Mission Control Center (TSUP) "" in Roskosmos Korolev. The court found Alexandra Osipova Kazbek Tebiev, general director of the Delta Stroy contracting construction company and an employee of the SU-24 subcontractor, guilty of large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Each of them received seven years in prison and was taken into custody in the courtroom. More. here

2020:7 years in prison for treason

On June 22, 2020, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced the head of the Center for Heat Exchange and Aerogasdynamics (CTA) of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash, the head scientific institute of the state corporation Roskosmos"") Roman Kovalev to seven years in prison for high treason. More. here

2019: Project Office Formation

As of April 11, 2019, on the basis of FSUE TsNIImash, the project office of the federal target company Sphere was formed, headed by General Director Sergei Koblov.

The project office includes more than 70 representatives of the state corporation Roscosmos, federal executive bodies, commercial companies and industrial organizations.

According to Sergey Prokhorov, Director of the Department of Advanced Programs and the Sphere Project of the Roscosmos State Corporation, for April, the project office collects and consolidates the proposals of the Federal Investment Fund for subsequent inclusion in the draft concept of the federal target program Sphere^[1]

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