EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The third edition of our Directory of Russian Space Industry remains the most reliable information tool available on the space sector in Russia. Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and endorsed by the Russian Space Agency, this publication provides a wealth of most recent information on this rapidly changing industry. In 240 full colour pages, the Directory features nearly 100 in-depth profiles, 2-3 pages each, of Russian space organizations and firms, a space activity correlation matrix, a short English Russian and Russian-English space dictionary. A telephone and fax directory of key personnel completes this book. In their respective forewords, Mr. Yuri Koptev, Director General of the RSA and Mr. Jean-Marie Luton, Director General of the ESA, highly prize the quality and authoritativeness of this publication.

(Extracted from the press release).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Editor's Note. Peter Berlin.

-Table of Contents.

-Foreword. Yuri Koptev.

-Foreword. Jean-Marie Luton.

-(Profiles).

-Russian Space Activity Correlation Matrix.

-Short English-Russian and Russian-English Space Dictionary.

-Telephone and Fax Directory of Key Personnel.

-Advertising Index.

OUR REVIEW

Exactly 97 are the profiles included in this third edition of the directory. Like in the previous ones, this work offers us a highly competent book which permits to approach the activities, personnel and direction of the Russian space industry, of a growing importance in the western programs. Each profile usually includes the name of the firm both in Cyrillic and Latin characters, as well as their complete address, a location map, the names of their managers, summaries of their activities, available facilities, products, projects in progress, etc. It is therefore a unique, extremely useful work for the western firms wishing to contact their Russian counterparts and establish commercial and working relationships.

The constant reorganization of the Russian aerospace industry, in an adaptative stage to the new budgetary realities, causes constant changes in denomination, situation and managing staff, so that sometimes it is very difficult to have an exact, precise guide of these firms. The present directory intends to overcome these difficulties by contributing all the necessary information in an updated way. Also a great amount of photographs illustrating some of the products manufactured by the firms integrating the directory, many of them unpublished, have also been included, so that they contribute to make the Russian space program more widely known. In short, an essential work, and a magnificient addition to the series of directories distributed and published by Sevig Press in the astronautical world.