Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the general director of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov. The corresponding decree is published on the Kremlin website. Dmitry Bakanov, Deputy Minister of Transport was appointed new head of the state corporation. About this writes The Moscow Times.

Yuri Borisov was appointed General Director of Roscosmos in July 2022. He replaced Dmitry Rogozin in this post, which headed the state corporation for four years.

Rossmi reports that most employees did not know about the decision to change the head of the state corporation until the last moment. The reason for this was allegedly "

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The possible resignation of Borisov has been discussed since the fall of 2024. Borisov’s last meeting with Putin, which Kremlin reported, took place in November 2024. It was devoted to the preparation of the national project in the field of space activity.

At the same time, the Kremlin has already commented on the resignation of Borisov. Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin has no complaints about the activities of Yuri Borisov to the posts of the head of Roscosmos.

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Before joining Roscosmos, Borisov has been overseeing the state control program since 2011-first as the deputy chairman of the military-industrial commission, then as the Deputy Minister of Defense, and subsequently as a deputy prime minister. Under him, the Russian defense-industrial complex (OPC) received 2 trillion rubles annually and was supposed to produce the divisions of the new Armata tanks, a new strategic bomber, 600 aircraft and thousands of helicopters, and also bring the share of modern weapons to 70%.. However, a full -scale war against Ukraine showed that Borisov failed the task - the Russian army invaded the country with old technology. And the tank "

In the first full year, as head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov announced the failure of the state plan on space launches. In 2023, the space state corporation carried out only 19 launches, which is 3 less than in the first year of full -scale war in Ukraine.

Compared to the pre-war year, the number of launches decreased by a quarter, and if compared with the beginning of the 2000s, almost doubled. The state corporation made less launches only in 2020 amid the pandemic of coronavirus.

Yuri Borisov justified the failures of US sanctions, which " Also, under Borisov, the first Russian space mission to the moon-the Luna-25 station, which has been prepared for more than 10 years, broke up, which had been prepared while trying to catch the first. At the same time, Borisov himself called this experience “invaluable” and wrote off the failure for a 50-year break in the research program.

Another failure was the launch of the Russian Sarmat missile at the launch pad of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. She exploded during the tests, destroying the starting shaft and leaving a huge crater.

Dmitry Bakanov, who replaced Yuri Borisov, was born in 1985, by education - an economist. Earlier he served as Deputy Minister of Transport, where he was engaged in " And from 2011 to 2019, he led the company "

The latter is a single operator for communication, broadcasting and relaying Roscosmos. Before that, he worked in IT Sitronics.

Recall that Dmitry Rogozin, after resigning from the post of head of Roscosmos, went to war with Ukraine and announced that he created and leads a group of military advisers " In 2023, he advised Putin to hit the Civil missile "