Proton PM

OJSC JSC «Proton» - Perm Motors produces, along with propulsion systems for JSC «Proton» launch vehicles, parts and components of rocket engines RD-191 for a new family of Angara launch vehicles. In addition, as a conversion program, the production of components of the Ural gas turbine power plants with a capacity of 2.5-6 MW, their assembly and testing were established. Production capacity is being increased, new, more progressive technologies are being introduced. The company employs about 4.4 thousand people.

One of the largest aerospace industry enterprises in Russia and the CIS. It produces engines for the JSC «Proton» launch vehicle, which is recognized as the most reliable transport space system in the world. As of 2007, more than 320 launch vehicle launches have been carried out. JSC «Proton» launched such satellites as Cosmos, Rainbow, Ekran, Horizon, Almaz, GLONASS, Express into Earth orbit, carried out commercial launches of Anik F1R, Direct TV8, WorldSat-2, Hot Bird 8, Arabsat 4A spacecraft. He launched automatic interplanetary stations of the Luna, Venus, Mars, Vega, Phobos series on interplanetary trajectories, launched the Salyut and Mir manned orbital stations, the main modules of the International Space Station.

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2025: Perm Plant Opening

On February 5, 2025, the JSC «Proton» - Perm Motors company (Proton-PM JSC) announced the opening of a new plant in the Novye Lyady microdistrict (Sverdlovsk district of Perm). This enterprise will be engaged in serial production of RD-191 engines for Angara launch vehicles.

Proton-PM (part of the integrated structure of the Scientific and Production Association Energomash named after Academician V.P. Glushko of the state corporation Roscosmos) manufactures powerful liquid rocket engines for the first stages of domestic space rockets, as well as other high-tech engineering products. The organization of serial production of RD-191 units, as noted, has the status of a priority regional investment project and is included in the action plan approved by the cooperation agreement between Roscosmos and the government of the Perm Territory.

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The new plant with an area of ​ ​ more than 44 thousand square meters includes four workshops: galvanic, mechanical, mechanical assembly and assembly. A complex of 10 lines of electrochemical coatings with closed-type treatment facilities has been deployed. In total, about 630 units of technological equipment are involved in the enterprise.

Proton-PM reports that high-tech workplaces have been created on the site that meet modern standards of comfort and safety. The workshops maintain a favorable microclimate, equipped sanitary and household premises, a navigation system operates that facilitates movement around the building. The number of employees will exceed 800 people.

"The launch of production is a new milestone in the history of the enterprise. Employees will receive new working conditions. This means that our young people who study in Perm technical schools and universities will strive for such workshops, "says the Governor of the Perm Territory Dmitry Makhonin^[1]

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