LOCATION: Moscow
Address:  1-a Elektrolitnyy proyezd, Moscow 115230
Telephone:  (095) 113-23-19
Fax:  (095) 113-34-88
[Russian Defense Business Directory (Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration, 1995), p. 80.] {Entered 10/12/99 MLB}
SUBORDINATION: Ministry of Atomic Energy
[Federation of American Scientists Web Site, http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/krasnaya.htm.] {entered 3/1/01 DK}
Director: Vladimir Sergeyevich Vasilkovskiy
["Catalogue," Russian Nuclear Site, http://www.nuclear.ru/cgi-bin/cat_get_e.cgi?ptr=125.] {entered 2/6/01 DK} 
ACTIVITIES:
Founded in 1972, GP Krasnaya Zvezda develops and produces nuclear power installations for spacecraft.[1,2]  Originally called NPO Krasnaya Zvezda, the enterprise was formed from three separate entities:  MKB Krasnaya Zvezda, part of TMKB Soyuz, and OKB Zarya.  In the 1970s, NPO Krasnaya Zvezda developed the Buk and Topol nuclear power installations; the Topol (also called Topaz-1) was developed with the help of IPPE and was first sent into orbit in 1987, in the Kosmos-1818 satellite.[1]  GP Krasnaya Zvezda is also involved in developing and producing small-capacity on-land, underground, and submerged nuclear power plants for use in remote areas--specifically, the reactors, control rod mechanisms, cooling systems, and various instruments for the plants.[2]
Sources:
[1] "Dostizheniye tseli: gosudarstvennomy predpriyatiyu 'Krasnaya Zvezda'--25 let," Atompressa, no. 45 (281), December 1997, p. 2.
[2] "KRASNAYA ZVEZDA" State Enterprise: "KRASNAYA ZVEZDA," Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 2000), p. 136.{updated 02/12/01 DK}
SUBCRITICAL ASSEMBLIES:  Two (shut down)
NAME:  Stena 111
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.] {Entered 3/17/98 LBN}
NAME:  U-379
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.] {Entered 3/17/98 LBN}

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