Chemical Automatics Design Bureau

KBKhA. Chemical Automatics Design Bureau
FormerlyOKB-154
IndustryRocket engines
FoundedVoronezh, USSR (April 2, 1946; 78 years ago (1946-04-02))
Headquarters
Voronezh
,
Russia
Key people
Viktor Dmitrievich Gorokhov [ru], Chief designer
ProductsSpacecraft propulsion, rocket engines
Revenue$53.2 million[1] (2015)
$1.07 million[1] (2015)
−$2.14 million[1] (2015)
Total assets$14 million[1] (2015)
Total equity$58.3 million[1] (2015)
ParentRoscosmos[2]
Websitekbkha.ru
Chemical Automatics Design Bureau
Coordinates51°35′04″N 39°10′15″E / 51.5844°N 39.1708°E / 51.5844; 39.1708

Chemical Automatics Design Bureau (CADB), also KB Khimavtomatika (Russian: Конструкторское бюро химавтоматики, КБХА, KBKhA), is a Russian design bureau founded by the NKAP (People's Commissariat of the Aircraft Industry) in 1941 and led by Semyon Kosberg until his death in 1965. Its origin dates back to a 1940 Moscow carburetor factory, evacuated to Berdsk in 1941, and then relocated to Voronezh city in 1945, where it now operates. Originally designated OKB-296 and tasked to develop fuel equipment for aviation engines, it was redesignated OKB-154 in 1946.[3]

In 1965 A.D. Konopatov [ru] took over leadership. He was succeeded by V.S. Rachuk [ru] in 1993, then by Viktor D. Gorokhov [ru] (RD-0124 Chief designer) in 2015. During this time the company designed a wide range of high technology products, including liquid propellant rocket engines, a nuclear reactor for space use, the first Soviet laser with an output of 1 MW and the USSR's only operational nuclear rocket engine.[4][5] The company has designed more than 60 liquid propellant engines with some 30 having entered production.[6]

In November 2019, the КБХА and the Voronezh Mechanical Plant were merged.[7][8]

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  2. ^ "О мерах по созданию Государственной корпорации по космической деятельности "Роскосмос"". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
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  7. ^ "Воронежский мехзавод и КБХА завершили процесс объединения трудовых коллективов".
  8. ^ "В Воронеже завершилось объединение ВМЗ и КБХА". November 5, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2023.