Roscosmos decided to insure the first launch from the East at 1.8 billion rubles. – RBC

The construction of the cosmodrome East

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The first launch from the Baikonur East, “Roskosmos” plans to insure the 1.84 billion rubles. The date of the start-up corporation will determine on Monday

The first-ever launch of a new Russian cosmodrome Vostochny will be insured by 1.84 billion rubles., Follows from the materials published on the public procurement portal. Insurance carrier rocket “Soyuz 2.1a” is included in this amount and the amount to 1.088 billion rubles. The launch complex at the same time plan to insure at 24.135 billion rubles.

The starting price for the right to sign the agreement amounted to RUB 146.7 million. The initial cost for the right to sign the agreement on insurance of the launch complex – 89 million rubles. The competition results will be announced on April 22.

At the end of March, the head of “Roskosmos” Igor Komarov announced that the first launch from the Baikonur East will take place in the last decade of April. The exact date will be decided on Monday at a meeting of the state corporation.

The first launch from the East was originally planned for 25 December 2015. In October, however, President Vladimir Putin has postponed the first launch in the spring of 2016. He expressed the hope that will be able to handle the Cosmonautics Day, which in Russia is celebrated on April 12, but stressed that in the space industry are unacceptable rush jobs, so it is necessary to complete all the construction and commissioning. If the holiday is not ready, start can be transferred, stressed Putin.

At the end of December 2015 the general director of the Samara Rocket and Space Center “Progress” Alexander Kirilin said that the first launch of the carrier rocket “Soyuz” with East scheduled for April 25. However, “Roskosmos” the date is not confirmed, stressing that it “will be determined only after the end of autonomous and complex tests».

The cosmodrome Vostochny in the Amur region began to build in 2011. Construction was planned to finish the 30 November 2015. At the same time it was accompanied by complaints of workers who did not receive a salary, as well as criminal cases against “Dalspetsstroy” subcontractors enterprise which is engaged in building.

In 2015, losses from theft of more than 2 billion rubles., Said the prosecutor of the Amur Region Nikolai Pilipchuk. During the year, police launched Bole e ten criminal cases of embezzlement of money.