General Director of the Energomash Research and Production Association Vladimir Solntsev was appointed interim acting general director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia instead of Vitaly Lopota, who was offered the position of vice president of the United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC) for technological development, ITAR- reports. TASS with reference to the press service of ORKK.

on July 11 that Vitaly Lopota, who has held the post of president of RSC Energia since July 2007, will soon be dismissed reported The Kommersant newspaper . Sources in Roscosmos told the publication that Vladimir Solntsev will become Lopota’s successor. Lopota's resignation was supported by the largest shareholder of Energia - Rosimushchestvo (owns 38.22% of RKK) - and Gazfond (12.4% of the shares are in the trust management of Leader CJSC of billionaire Yuri Kovalchuk ), a newspaper source said.

Lopota himself did not confirm rumors about his resignation. “In 2012, I signed a five-year contract; to terminate it ahead of schedule there must be weighty arguments, or my failure to fulfill some obligations. This has not yet been observed,” he told ITAR-TASS on July 11.

RSC Energia is the leading Russian organization for manned space systems. Conducts work on the creation of automatic space and rocket systems (launch vehicles and inter-orbital transportation), high-tech systems for various purposes for use in non-space fields.

The head of RSC Energia has changed