Rogozin on Sunday flew to the cosmodrome “East” – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 16 – RIA Novosti. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Sunday flew to the cosmodrome “East” in the Amur region.

On this he wrote in his microblog to Twitter, adding that he plans to inspect the construction of 12 objects “starting minimum” because “came the critical moment”.

Earlier, the Russian government has instructed the Russian Space Agency and Spetsstroi take measures to implement the 2015 program for the construction of the cosmodrome ” East “.

Following the meeting of the government, which took place on March 12 was marked by the low efficiency of the implementation in 2014 of the subprogram” Creation of providing infrastructure spaceport “East” Federal Target Program “Development of Russian space centers for 2006-2015″ .

Last week, Rogozin demanded from the head Cpetsstroya financial statements for 2013 due to problems with the construction of the spaceport. In addition, he promised that he would personally and strictly control the expenditure of funds for the construction of the spaceport. Thus, the Deputy Prime Minister assured that “sabotage will not allow” and “head blown off” those who steal even rubles for the construction of “Eastern”.

cosmodrome “East” being built near the village of Uglegorsk in the Amur region; the first launch of the carrier rocket is scheduled for 2015, the first launch of a manned spacecraft – in 2018. Construction work should be completed before 30 November 2015. Builders have repeatedly reported on behind schedule on individual objects up to two months, assuring that in operative terms must overcome it.

At the end of January, the head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova said that the cost of building the ground infrastructure spaceport, according to the agency, overstated by more than 13 billion rubles. She added that the test materials were transferred to the Investigation Committee. In addition, the Government instructed the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation to ensure the implementation in the current year, the federal program for the modernization of a single air traffic management system of the Russian Federation for 2009-2020.