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Perm engine building complex

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Subsidiary of Roscosmos

OJSC Proton-PM (Russian: АО «Протон-ПМ») is a Russian engine and heavy machinery manufacturing plant. It is located in the city of Perm, in the Perm Krai, on the bank of the Kama River. It started in 1958 as the specialized branch of Plant No. 19 named after I. V. Stalin for the manufacturing of the RD-214 rocket engine.2 It employed about 12,000 people.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1992Founded1
  • Industryaerospace industry, mechanical engineering1
  • HeadquartersPerm1
  • Websiteprotonpm.com
  • Legal formclosed joint-stock company, open joint-stock company1

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OJSC Proton-PM (Russian: АО «Протон-ПМ») is a Russian engine and heavy machinery manufacturing plant. It is located in the city of Perm, in the Perm Krai, on the bank of the Kama River. It started in 1958 as the specialized branch of Plant No. 19 named after I. V. Stalin for the manufacturing of the RD-214 rocket engine. In 1964 it was given made a separate entity then known as Second Production. In the later years, it has branched intro producing gas turbine power plants.2

Products and brands

Current engines

Engines in current production at the plant:

RD-276 the latest version of the RD-275.

RD-191 a liquid rocket engine, burning kerosene and LOX that powers the Angara (rocket) family of launch vehicles.

Former engines

Engines that are no longer produced at the plant.

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RD-214 a liquid rocket engine, burning AK-27I (a mixture of 73% Nitric acid + 27% N2O4 + iodine passivant and TM-185 (a kerosene and gasoline mix), that powered the R-12 and Kosmos-2.

RD-253 a liquid rocket engine, burning UDMH/N2O4 that powers the Proton first stage.

RD-275 an improved RD-253.

Gas Turbines

Ural-2500 gas-turbine power station (2.55 MW/ 5.82 Gcal per hour),

Ural-4000 gas-turbine power station (4.13 MW/ 8.3 Gcal per hour),

Ural-6000 gas-turbine power station (6.14 MW/ 11.44 Gcal per hour),

GTES-16PA gas-turbine power station (16.3 MW/ 19.48 Gcal per hour),

GTES-25P gas-turbine power station (23.0 MW/ 26.1 Gcal per hour).

GTU-32P (up to 34 40 MW)

From Wikipedia’s article on Proton-PM, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1992Founded Founded1

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