TsSKB-Progress is a Federal State Unitary Enterprise. It is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Space Agency.  It is situated in Samara. TsSKB-Progress consists of the design bureau, the plant, the branch offices and the representative office.

General Director Alexander N. Kirilin heads TsSKB-Progress.

First Deputy General Director - General Designer  is Ravil N. Akhmetov.

First Deputy General Director – Chief Engineer Sergey V. Tyulevin.

TsSKB-Progress was created by the Russian Presidential decree of April 12, 1996 by amalgamation of Samara Plant "Progress" and Central Specialized Design Bureau, that were established in1894 and 1959 correspondingly.

21.10.2011-

Launch of Soyuz-ST-B with two Galileo-IOV satellites from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
12.04.1996 – TsSKB-Progress was established

23.07.1959 – in Kuibyshev at State Aviation Plant №1 there was established Department №25 ОКB-1

TsSKB-Progress conducted its activity according to the Federal Space Program in the interests of research activities, economic progress and Russian Federation national safety.
Simultaneously, TsSKB-Progress participates in all the important international scientific and commercial programs.
 

18,Zemets Street,

Samara,  443009 Russia 

Samara Space Centre

Tel. (846) 955-13-61

Tel./fax: (846) 992-65-18

The theory of low-orbiting spacecraft building for the Earth remote sensing was developed by Samara Space Centre’s research school. Fundamental research, served as a basis for creation of new lines of investigations in the field of geodesy and mapping, biology and medicine, materials science, high-energy physics was carried out by Samara Space Centre’s research school.

Research articles:

Promising subject areas – Development of research techniques for liquid propellant dynamics at launch vehicle tanks