“The Board of Directors of RSC Energia PJSC approved Igor Ozar as Acting General Director of the enterprise. This issue will be agreed upon with the supervisory board of the state corporation at its next meeting at the end of this month, ”Roscosmos said in a statement.

Nikolay Sevastyanov, who held the post of General Director, will be transferred to the position of Advisor to the General Director of Roscosmos. 

It is noted that in the new post he will deal with the development of private space exploration.

In early May, the death of the General Designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Eugene Mikrin, was reported.