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ICS Holding moves headquarters to the National Space Center
In mid-September 2025, it became known that the Russian ICS Holding, which unites companies in the field of technological infrastructure, information security and satellite communications, was moving its headquarters to the National Space Center (NCC). The official opening of this facility took place on September 13, 2025. Read more here.
Moving Roscosmos to the center
Roscosmos will move to the new National Space Center in western Moscow. Deputy Mayor of the capital for urban planning policy and construction Vladimir Efimov announced his readiness to start moving the state corporation to a modern complex on September 9, 2025.
The implementation of a large-scale project is provided by the Mosinzhproekt company owned by the city government. The organization's specialists draw up a detailed plan for moving the space department to a new building with an area of about 260 thousand square meters.
Efimov described the National Space Center as a complex structure in terms of engineering systems, analogues of which are extremely difficult to find. The uniqueness of the facility requires a special approach to organizing the move and setting up all technical systems, Efimov noted.
Usually such buildings are rented out in stages - first in a shell & core state, followed by interior decoration and technical filling. However, the city technical customer is simultaneously engaged in the completion of construction work and internal arrangement of premises.
The construction of the National Space Center began at the end of 2019 on the territory of the State Space Research and Production Center named after M.V. Khrunichev. The project provides for the creation of a modern complex to accommodate the central apparatus of the space department.
The architectural dominant of the complex is a trihedral tower 288 meters high with a spire, consisting of 47 floors. The appearance of the structure resembles a rocket installed on the launch table, which symbolically reflects the cosmic orientation of the activities of future inhabitants of the building.
In addition to the high-rise section, the National Space Center includes a low-rise development with buildings from eight to ten floors. Such an architectural solution allows us to rationally distribute various divisions of Roscosmos, taking into account the specifics of their activities.[1]
2023: Construction completed
On October 4, 2023, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the completion of the main construction of the National Space Center (NCC). The mayor of the capital visited this facility together with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov and the General Director of the state corporation Roscosmos Yury Borisov.
 | The main installation work was completed, all 47 floors of the high-rise building were installed, they began laying engineering communications, facade and finishing work. And we are already coordinating the terms of reference for the technological part. I hope that in the next [2024] year the center will work in full, - said Sergei Sobyanin on October 4, 2023. |  |
As indicated on the website of the mayor of Moscow, the central element of the NCC will be a high-rise triangular tower, reminiscent of a rocket installed on the launch pad. The appearance of the building will complement the original architectural and artistic lighting. Lighting fixtures with a warm glow spectrum will be installed in the lower part - this will create the illusion of a launch flame igniting under the rocket.
A long body will join the tower, divided into several blocks - "keys." It will be possible to walk through a through gallery, which, according to the authors' idea, symbolizes a ribbon of time telling about the history of space exploration.
The center was erected on the territory of the State Space Research and Production Center named after M.V. Khrunichev in the Filevsky Park area. The project for the creation of the NCC includes not only the construction of new buildings, but also the preservation of the production complex of the GKNPC named after M.V. Khrunichev, it will occupy about 50 hectares.
It is assumed that the Russian scientific and educational potential will be concentrated in the NCC: in addition to the production facilities of the rocket and space industry, it is planned to organize the placement of industry departments of leading technical universities in Moscow.[2]
2022: Centre construction
On January 24, 2022, it became known about the completion date of the construction of the National Space Center (NCC) in Moscow. We are talking about a complex of buildings on the territory of the State Space Research and Production Center (GKNPC) named after M.V. Khrunichev. The project is planned to be fully implemented in 2023.
| | On the territory of the Khrunichev Center, the largest project in Moscow is being implemented to create a scientific and technological cluster, which will combine production, research, and educational buildings. The core of this territory will be a scientific and space center, which is being built jointly with Roscosmos, - said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, whose words are quoted by the press service of the capital's Urban Planning Policy and Construction Complex. | |
As Sobyanin noted, by January 24, 2022, a significant part of the 10-story buildings of the future NCC had already been built. The builders began the construction of the main, high-rise tower. Seven floors are already ready.
It is assumed that the creation of the NCC will allow combining on one site a number of key organizations of the rocket and space industry: the central office and the situation center of the state corporation Roscosmos, industry institutes and enterprises, which by January 2022 are scattered throughout Moscow. In addition, it will include a modern educational complex, youth design bureaus, a business support center, exhibition centers, and a production diversification center.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that about 25 billion rubles would be spent on the construction of the National Space Center in Moscow. According to the head of state, it is necessary that there is not only everything that concerns space directly, but that a cluster of adjacent areas is located nearby, which are extremely needed by the space industry.[3]
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