Rocket and Space Center "Progress"

Dux Factory

The plant began its history in Moscow in 1894 , when the Russified German Yu. Meller founded a bicycle repair shop, subsequently transforming it into a Duks factory for the production of bicycles, motorcycles, railcars, cars, snowmobiles, airships, airplanes.

GAZ No. 1

February 19, 1919 the plant was renamed the State Aviation Plant No. 1 named after Osoaviakhim ( GAZ No. 1 ).

Before the Great Patriotic War, the plant mass-produced aircraft: ^[4]

• P-1 (1926-1930, 1501 copies);
• I-2 and I-2bis (1926-1929, 162 copies);
• I-3 (1926-1931, 389 copies);
• I-4 (1927-1928, 172 copies);
• P-5 (1930-1935, 5025 specimens, including 111 float MP-5 / P-5a);
• I-5 (1931-1932, 142 copies);
• I-7 (1931-1934, 131 copies);
• I-15 (1934-1935, 335 copies);
• SSS (1935-1937, 620 copies);
• P-Z (1935-1937, 1031 copies);
• DI-6 (1936, 61 copies);
• I-15 bis (1938-1939, 2408 copies);
• I-153 "The Seagull" (1939-1941, 3437 copies);
• MiG-3 (1940-1941, 1309 copies until June 22, 1941) ^[5] ;

In addition, the plant built a number of experimental aircraft.

On May 19, 1939, the world's first two - stage P3 missile manufactured by the plant was successfully launched.

On December 31, 1940, State Aviation Plant No. 1 was awarded the Order of Lenin for the successful fulfillment of the Government’s task to develop new types of weapons in production.

On August 27, 1941 , GKO Decree No. 594 ordered the aircraft factory No. 1 to immediately begin production of IL-2 aircraft according to the model manufactured by aircraft factory No. 18 . By the end of the year, the plant was supposed to release 420 attack aircraft, including 20 in October, 150 in November and 250 in December. Simultaneously with the development and production of IL-2, the plant was supposed to produce 920 MiG-3 fighters in the remaining four months of 1941 (in September 420, in October 250, in November 150, in November 150, and in December 100 aircraft). The development of the IL-2 was slow. In September, factory # 1 assembled one attack aircraft from parts delivered from Voronezh, and another one in early October.

In accordance with the Decree of the Government of the USSR of September 17, 1939 No. 346c, 3 km from the Bezymyanka station in the vicinity of the city of Kuybyshev, an aircraft building plant No. 122 of the NKAP was built. The construction project was prepared by the end of 1940. By order No. 262ss of 03/22/1941, the plant was transferred to the 10th General Directorate of the People’s Commissariat of Aviation Industry (NKAP). The construction was carried out by the Special Construction Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR , by the forces of Bezyanlag prisoners. By June 1941, only the foundations and walls of workshops, a cement plant and Bezymyanskaya TPP were built.

In June – July 1941, after the outbreak of World War II , factories No. 35 from Smolensk ^[6] , No. 89 (branch of Plant No. 1), No. 453 (Kaunas), No. 463 (the city of Evgeny) were evacuated to the site of Plant No. 122. Tallinn), No. 464 (Riga), No. 483 from Kiev and, by order No. 705c of 07/17/1941, were incorporated into factory No. 122. By order No. 984c of September 16, 1941 factory No. 122 was also poured into 8 OAP from Dnepropetrovsk.

In October 1941, by order of the NKAP No. 1053ss of 10/09/1941, plant No. 1 was evacuated from Moscow to the site of the aircraft plant No. 122. Under construction, by order No. 1084ss of 10/28/1941, a single plant was formed and commissioned NKAP plant No. 1, which also included plants No. 89 and No. 483 of the 7th NKAP Main Directorate. ^[7]

On December 10, 1941, the first plane (MiG-3) took off, released by the plant on the nameless site. ^[8]

During the Great Patriotic War, the plant produced 11,863 Il-2 aircraft (out of more than 36,000 launched in the USSR), 1,225 Il-10 aircraft, 3,122 MiG-3 aircraft (approximately 15 aircraft per day).

During the war years at the plant (as well as at many enterprises of the USSR at that time), the labor of women, adolescents, and pensioners was widely used. In the initial period of the war, the plant lagged behind the necessary production rates, and the directors of the Kuibyshev Aviation Plants No. 1 and No. 18 received a telegram of I. V. Stalin in December 1941 ^[9] :

You failed our country and our Red Army.
You do not deign to still produce IL-2 points. Our Red Army needs IL-2 planes now as air as bread.
Shenkman gives one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov gives MIG-3 one at a time two points
This is a mockery of the country over the Red Army.
We need not MiGs but an IL-2 point
If the 18th plant thinks to take a break from the country by giving one IL-2 per day, then it is severely mistaken and will incur punishment for this
I ask you not to take the government out of patience and demand that they release more "IL" ov point
I warn you the last time
STALIN

As a result of the measures taken, the necessary rate of aircraft release was achieved.

On July 2, 1945, State Aviation Plant No. 1 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the exemplary fulfillment of Government tasks for the production of combat aircraft.

After the war, in 1946, the plant mastered the serial production of the first Soviet MiG-9 jet aircraft; in 40 days and nights, the plant manufactured 10 cars.

In 1949, the plant began production of the latest MiG-15 fighters. In total, up to 1953, 713 MiG-15 aircraft and their modifications were manufactured.

In the period 1952-1953. The plant built 392 MiG-17 fighters. In 1953, the plant also produced IL-28 bombers, releasing them in an amount of 50 copies.

In 1954, the plant began production of Tu-16 bombers, of which 545 were built before 1960.

In total, from 1909 to 1960. the plant produced over 42 thousand serial and more than 90 modifications of experimental and experimental aircraft.

On January 2, 1958, the Soviet government adopted a decree on the deployment at the State Aviation Plant No. 1 of serial production of the R-7 rocket. Thus, the plant was redesigned from aviation to rocket and space, which required a radical restructuring of production, the creation of new workshops and sections, the design and manufacture of sophisticated equipment, and the retraining of workers and engineering workers. The organization of work and technical management were entrusted to the director of the plant V. Ya. Litvinov and the lead designer of the R-7 rocket, D. I. Kozlov , who was appointed in April 1958 as deputy chief designer of OKB-1 .

In 1958, the factory launched the first series of “Storm” supersonic cruise missiles for flight tests (19 missiles). ^[10]

On January 1, 1960, the plant received the code name "Enterprise PO Box No. 208", and on December 16, 1961, the open name "Plant" Progress "".

Progress Plant

On February 17, 1959, the first serial intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 manufactured at the Progress plant (the first intercontinental ballistic missiles manufactured by the Progress plant and delivered to the troops) was successfully launched from the range No. 5 of the USSR Ministry of Defense (now the Baikonur cosmodrome ) served as the basis for the creation of the Strategic Missile Forces in 1959).

On January 20, 1960, the ICBM was launched for the first time at its maximum range in the Pacific.

In subsequent years, the plant mastered the mass production of R-7, R-7A, R-9A rockets, Vostok-M , Lightning , Lightning-M, Soyuz launch vehicles. From the late 1950s to the present, the Progress plant has been the leading manufacturer of all R-7 launch vehicles.

On April 12, 1961, a spacecraft with the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome into low Earth orbit. The Vostok launch vehicle for its launch was manufactured at the Progress Kuybyshev plant.

From the mid-1960s until 1974, the company also produced an H1 super-heavy carrier rocket.

In 1976-1993 The plant was a key one in the production of the universal carrier of the superheavy class Energy , making its central unit and responsible for assembling the product as a whole. The branch of the plant at the Baikonur cosmodrome at that time bore the code name "Enterprise p / R-6514." ^[eleven]

In the Soviet period, in addition to the main products, the plant also produced consumer goods : tourist and pleasure boats " Progress " and prams.

CSKB

On July 23, 1959, for the purpose of design support for the production and modernization of R-7 missiles, a serial design department No. 25, which was part of OKB-1, was organized on the territory of the plant. A year later, the department was transformed into OKB-1 branch No. 3, all work on the development of R-7 missiles is assigned to it.

In 1964, branch No. 3 of OKB-1 became the leading organization for the creation of space-based reconnaissance aids; since 1968, it proactively began to implement projects for the civilian use of proprietary spacecraft.

On March 6, 1966, branch No. 3 of OKB-1 was named Kuybyshevsky branch of the Central Design Bureau of Experimental Engineering (KF TsKBEM). D.I. Kozlov has been appointed the chief and chief designer of the CF TsKBEM.

In the mid-late 1960s The Kozlova Design Bureau developed the Zvezda military manned spacecraft based on the Soyuz-VI 7K-R / 7K-S / 7K-VI developments transferred from the Korolev Design Bureau OKB-1 (now TsKBEM ) due to its congestion near-Earth and lunar civil manned programs. The ship "Star" had a Nudelman-Richter aircraft gun NR-23 and a radioisotope generator . Also, the ship compares favorably with the basic Soyuz 7K-OK in layout. The project was approved, the government approved the first test flight - the end of 1968. The ship was embodied in metal and prepared for test flights, as well as a special group of astronauts. However, V. P. Mishin , who replaced S. P. Korolyov, the new head of OKB-1 (TsKBEM) , canceled the Zvezda ship program, promising to create the next military version of the Soyuz 7K-VI / OIS ship, which was never created in conditions of high costs in the " moon race ". ^{[12] [13]}

June 30, 1974 established an independent enterprise - the Central Specialized Design Bureau (TsSKB). The chief and chief designer of TsSKB appointed D.I. Kozlov . July 6, 1983 he was appointed General Designer of TsSKB.

TsSKB-Progress

April 12, 1996 TsSKB and Samara Plant "Progress" were merged into the State Scientific and Production Rocket and Space Center "TsSKB-Progress".

In 2003 A.N. Kirilin was appointed General Director of TsSKB-Progress, and D.I. Kozlov became an Honorary General Designer.

Currently, the company produces Soyuz family launch vehicles used to launch artificial Earth satellites and automatic interplanetary stations into orbit, as well as to support expeditions to the International Space Station ; thus, TsSKB-Progress plays an important role not only in Russia, but also in world space. In addition, the enterprise manufactures spacecraft intended for remote sensing of the Earth (Resurs-DK apparatus is currently operating successfully) and for photo reconnaissance, and besides this, the Bion-M and Photon scientific spacecraft.

Since 1994, TsSKB-Progress has been developing and testing the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle , which is a deep modernization of the Soyuz launch vehicle

The secondary products of the enterprise are single-use syringes , “ Aqualine ” pleasure boats, band- saws and other industrial and technical products and consumer goods.

In 2006, the company won a tender for the production of a light twin-engine aircraft “ Rysachok ” (developed by the Moscow company Tekhnoavia ).

In 2010, TsSKB-Progress defended a preliminary design for the Rus-M medium-range high-capacity space rocket complex, which was supposed to be launched from the future Russian space center Vostochny . Since the beginning of 2011, a technical project was being developed at the Rus-M KRK, but at the end of 2011 work on the project was discontinued at the direction of the Roskosmos leadership (due to lack of budget funding). ^{[14] [15]}

On July 1, 2014 , the FSUE GNPRKTS TsSKB-Progress was reorganized into the Progress Rocket and Space Center Open Joint-Stock Company in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated April 17, 2012 No. 457 "On the Transformation of Federal State Unitary Enterprises" State Scientific and production rocket and space center “TsSKB-Progress”, “Scientific and Production Association of Automation named after academician N. A. Semikhatov” and “Scientific Research Institute of Command Instruments” into open joint-stock companies ”and p by order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 904-r dated June 04, 2012 ^{[16] [17]} After the reorganization, 100% of the shares of RCC Progress OJSC remained in state ownership in the person of the Federal Property Management Agency. Alexander was appointed General Director of RCC Progress under the terms of privatization Nikolaevich Kirilin .

FSUE Scientific and Production Automation Association named after Academician N. A. Semikhatov and FSUE Scientific Research Institute of Command Instruments have also been transformed into open joint-stock companies. Tentatively in December 2014, NPOA OJSC and NII KP OJSC will enter, as subsidiaries, in the integrated structure of Progress RCC OJSC.

In June 2016, the 50th anniversary of the Progress Baikonur branch was celebrated. ^[eighteen]

In August 2016, in accordance with Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of August 19, 2016 No. 824, 100% of the shares of the enterprise were transferred to the State Space Corporation Roscosmos as a property contribution of the Russian Federation. ^[19]

On June 28, 2018, Dmitry Alexandrovich Baranov was appointed General Director of Progress RCC JSC. ^[twenty]

• Elizavetin, Alexey Ivanovich - Deputy Director (in 1943-1944)

Progress Plant Until 1962

Plant Progress and TsSKB since 1966 (since 1996 TsSKB-Progress)

Акционерное общество "Ракетно-космический центр «Прогресс» имеет свидетельство эксплуатанта авиации общего назначения АОН-10-03-001 от 15.11.2003 и самолёты Ан-24Б (1 шт.), Ан-26-100 (1 шт.), Ан-26Б -100 (1 шт.) ^[22] ; средний возраст воздушных судов компании 40 лет ^[23] . До начала 1990-х лётный отряд предприятия включал также самолёты Ил-14 , Ан-12 , один Ил-76 , один Ту-134А ; до начала 2000-х имелся также самолёт Ан-72 .

• Авиакор
• Старсем - российско-французское общество с участием РКЦ Прогресс для работы на международном рынке
• ГКНПЦ им. Хруничева
• Информационные спутниковые системы
• ПО «Полёт» (Омск)
• РКК Энергия

• Website TsSKB-Progress
• “Space Orbits of Samara” Documentary ( Roscosmos Television Studio )
• Aviation Plant No. 1 on the Bezymyanka plan map compiled by German intelligence in 1943