Sponsors of the Programme

General sponsor -


Rocket Space Corporation ENERGIA named after S.P. Korolev (Korolev, Moscow region)
- is the key Russian agency in the field of designing, construction, and operation of manned spacecraft. RSC-E President is Yuri Pavlovich Semenov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The corporation is famous for launching the first artificial satellite of the Earth with the booster which were essentially devised with combined forces of high-graded engineers. All the space vehicles that carried to space national and international crews were designed and manufactured by this corporation. It gave birth to the family of the SALYUT orbital stations, multi-module space station MIR, the largest rocket ENERGIA, orbiter BURAN. RSC-E renders gratis some services to the Program including delivery of the model to the space station and its ensuing insertion into orbit. Armed with a unique experience of space operations, personnel of the corporation consults the design work, and assembly and testing of the model.

Technical sponsor -


State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation Institute for Biomedical Problems (Moscow) –
is the leading Russian institution in the area of investigation and support of human in different kinds of extreme environments starting from deep-water immersion and finishing by missions to space. Director is Anatoly Ivanovich Grigoriev, active member of RAS and RAMS. The system of biomedical support and countermeasures against the adverse spaceflight factors proved their advantages in long-term missions including the record (438-day) one by cosmonaut-physician V.V. Polyakov who is affiliated to IBMP. The system may lay the basis for future super-long, i.e. interplanetary, missions. IBMP personnel took up gratis the logistic and assistant support of the Program, and information of the public.

Program sponsors

  1. Incombank (President V.V. Vinogradov) - the first commercial bank of the country with the highest rating

  2. CJSA transport company "Lukoil-Trans" (General director M.M. Smoliaev) - one of the biggest transport companies of the Russian Federation capable to deliver any freight by any transport means to any point in the world.

  3. Russian/US JE "Sovintel" (General director A.Ya. Vinogradov) - global telecommunication lines and hardware

  4. East-European Financial Company (General director S.I. Bogatov) - raising and allocation of Western investments in the Russian economy.

  5. Trade company "RADA" (General director D.V. Deev) - wholesale of consumer goods

  6. JSA "TechInfo" (General director S.E. Bolotov) - development and adoption of automated systems for controlling the Russian economy, telecommunication services
  7. Company "Norton Kalting" (President Makis Metaksas) - advertising/informational services all over the world
  8. Ministry of Communication of France.


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