Chemical Automatics Design Bureau
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Chemical Automatics Design Bureau (CADB), also KB Khimavtomatika (Russian: Конструкторское бюро химавтоматики, КБХА, KBKhA), is a Russian design bureau founded by the NKAP (People's Commissariat of the Aircraft Industry) in 1941 and led by Semyon Kosberg until his death in 1965. Its origin dates back to a 1940 Moscow carburetor factory, evacuated to Berdsk in 1941, and then relocated to Voronezh city in 1945, where it now operates. Originally designated OKB-296 and tasked to develop fuel equipment for aviation engines, it was redesignated OKB-154 in 1946.[3]
Formerly | OKB-154 |
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Industry | Rocket engines |
Founded | Voronezh, USSR (April 2, 1946; 78 years ago (1946-04-02)) |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Viktor Dmitrievich Gorokhov [ru], Chief designer |
Products | Spacecraft propulsion, rocket engines |
Revenue | $53.2 million[1] (2015) |
$1.07 million[1] (2015) | |
-$2.14 million[1] (2015) | |
Total assets | $14 million[1] (2015) |
Total equity | $58.3 million[1] (2015) |
Parent | Roscosmos[2] |
Website | kbkha.ru |
Coordinates | 51.5844°N 39.1708°E / 51.5844; 39.1708 |
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In 1965 A.D. Konopatov [ru] took over leadership. He was succeeded by V.S. Rachuk [ru] in 1993, then by Gorokhov Viktor Dmitrievich [ru] (RD-0124 Chief designer) in 2015. During this time the company designed a wide range of high technology products, including liquid propellant rocket engines, a nuclear reactor for space use, the first Soviet laser with an output of 1 MW and the USSR's only operational nuclear rocket engine.[4][5] The company has designed more than 60 liquid propellant engines with some 30 having entered production.[6]
In November 2019, the КБХА and the Voronezh Mechanical Plant were merged.[7][8]