Crocus Group Araza Agalarova, which owns the largest shopping and exhibition and business center Crocus City, will build a technical complex for the Angara missile at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
A construction contract worth 15.38 billion rubles was concluded on December 28, 2022.
The company also gasifies the cosmodrome – for this, a separate contract is concluded by the amount of 907 million rubles.
Crocus Group was chosen as a general contractor due to the fact that the company already has building capacities and competencies at the cosmodrome, explained in Roscosmos. At the end of 2020, the Cosmodrome Directorate also without a competition entered into a contract for the construction of the first stage of the airport at the Cosmodrome for 28 billion rubles.
with Crocus Group.
“We are specialists in swamp construction, because the stadiums for the World Cup stood in the swamps,” Crocus Expo ” – also. The next swamp in which we got is the airport for the cosmodrome,” said Agalarov.
The ex-head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin personally addressed the airport to build an airport.
In 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who then changed Rogozin as head of Roscosmos, already offered Crocus Group to engage in the construction of the cosmodrome. Agalarov refused, citing the fact that there would not be enough money allocated for the project.
“The construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, the launch complex under the Angara heavy missile was discussed. I don’t remember what the estimate was there. But I then calculated what the cost of concrete, the difficulty of the work on the builders, and said that this money was this money , which are provided in the contract, is simply not enough. And I refused, ”said Agalarov.
The complex that the company agreed to build should be ready by the end of 2025. The total area of structures will be 50 thousand square meters. m.