Structure and personnel news

Vladimir Solovyov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut and flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS, has been appointed the new general designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia. This was reported on Friday, November 12, by the RIA Novosti news agency.

It is envisaged to create a technopolis development fund, which will allow in the form of grants and interest-free loans to finance the research and work carried out by the participants

The State Duma at the plenary session on Thursday adopted in the first reading a bill on state support for participants of the innovative technopolis of the Russian Ministry of Defense "Era".

In a few years, the Armed Forces will have officers professionally trained to conduct psychological defense. Such specialists will be trained at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. This was reported on Thursday in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the department.

According to a TASS source, in the coming days he will begin flying to a permanent-based airfield

The hundredth separate naval fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet has completed training on an analog of an aircraft carrier - the NITKA ground test training complex in Saki in the Crimea. In the coming days, he will begin flying to a permanent-based airfield, a source close to the Crimean law enforcement agencies told TASS.

On November 9, the first meeting of the Working Group on Regulatory and legal support of the financial stability of the organizations of the military-industrial complex at the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia took place, the press service of PJSC Promsvyazbank reported.

As a result of the conversion procedure, the share of participation of the Kazakh side in the joint venture of Kazakhstan and Russia will increase to 99%

The Senate (upper house of Parliament) of Kazakhstan on Thursday ratified the protocol on amendments and additions to the intergovernmental agreement between Kazakhstan and Russia on the creation of the Baikonur space rocket complex "Baiterek" dated December 22, 2004. The meeting was broadcast on the parliament's website.

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that "this management structure itself has justified itself, allowed to concentrate powers and clearly define responsibility for solving practical tasks."

The US Army has revived the 56th Artillery Command in Germany, which was based in the country during the Cold War. This was reported on November 8 by The Washington Times.

The difficult epidemic situation has not affected the effectiveness of combat training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday during a conference call.

The document provides for the active introduction of six key innovations into production practice: artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, augmented reality technologies, new production and communication technologies. They, in turn, will help to increase labor productivity, reduce the cost of production and accelerate the introduction of goods to the market.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow District on Monday upheld the decision of the lower courts to recover 461.8 million rubles of debt from Sistemprom in favor of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation out of the required 761.8 million rubles.

Novy Kosmos will create small satellites

Anton Alekseev, the winner of one of the stages of the Leaders of Russia competition, has created a new private space company that will create small satellites. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the competition.

The troops of the Southern Military District are at the forefront of the combat training system of the Russian Army. Here it has long been put at the forefront, the commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, Hero of Russia, Army General Alexander Dvornikov, told the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.

In Russia, the modernization of the employment service will begin, so that applicants can more easily find the right vacancy, and the employer can find a specialist. This was stated by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Monday, November 8, at a meeting with deputy prime ministers.

Russian specialists have already trained more than 6,000 Tajik military personnel, Alexander Lapin, commander of the Central Military District (CVO), told reporters.

Submarine crews are being trained at the Klen-85 coastal training Complex at the Submarine Crew Training Center in Sosnovy Bor.

The crew of the corvette project 20385 "Agile", under construction at JSC Severnaya Verf (part of JSC USC), is undergoing the final training cycle at the Joint Training Center of the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg.

The crew of the Askold small rocket ship, which is being built in Kerch at the B.E.Butoma shipyard, will undergo comprehensive training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy.

On the TV channel "Russia-1" in an interview with the program "Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin" Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke about the situation with coronavirus in the armed forces. According to him, thanks to the almost continuous vaccination of military personnel, it is not as acute as in the whole country.

Many general designers of enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex have died from coronavirus, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.