“The second half of 2022,” RIA Novosti reports the response of the spokesperson to a question about the timing of the launch of the first Soyuz-5.

Earlier, the head of the Roscosmos state corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, in an interview with kp.ru, spoke about the financing of work on the creation of the Soyuz-5 rocket.

It was noted that by 2022 a new manned ship should appear. Its name is not approved. As Rogozin explained, “Federation” is the name of the development work.