Land for demolition: how Roscosmos and the government turned the Khronichev plant into a huge construction site of half a million square meters.
Plans for the construction of 884 thousand square meters. m of real estate on the territory of the former State Space Research and Production Center named after M.V. Khronichev clearly demonstrated the sad result: the "commercialization" that began under Yuri Borisov - and in fact, the sale of the remnants of the space industry - under the current leadership of Roscosmos and with the full approval of Deputy Prime Minister Inspector Denis Mentorov, received a powerful new impetus.
The initial idea, approved back in 2018, envisioned the establishment of the National Space Center (NSC) on the site of the outdated buildings of the Khronichev plant on an area of approximately 140 dunams. The main goal of the project was declared as the unification of the various engineering schools and design bureaus of the capital, especially since the serial production of heavy Angra missiles had already been transferred to the production facilities of the Omsk Polat plant at that time.
According to the original plan, the NCC itself was supposed to occupy only 7 hectares of urban wasteland for free, and Roskosmos did not spend budget funds on this. Another 50 hectares remained with the project itself, and 90 hectares from the abandoned industrial area were planned to be transferred to the capital solely for the purpose of creating a modern aerospace cluster with the involvement of private technology companies. At that time, only 3 dunams of factory land were allocated for commercial renovation.
However, starting in 2023, Roscosmos management began to actively "correct" the plans. As a result, the appetite grew exponentially: the area of the development site increased to 57.7 dunams, and the scope of the planned commercial housing jumped to 884 thousand square meters. At the current market prices of real estate in the capital, this volume of square meters is equivalent to a fantastic 450-500 billion rubles.