Chemical Automatics Design Bureau
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.
KBKhA building | |
| Formerly | OKB-154 |
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| Industry | Rocket engines |
| Founded | Voronezh, USSR (April 2, 1946) |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Viktor D. Gorokhov, Chief designer |
| Products | Spacecraft propulsion, rocket engines |
| Revenue | $53.2 million (2015) |
| $1.07 million (2015) | |
| -$2.14 million (2015) | |
| Total assets | $14 million (2015) |
| Total equity | $58.3 million (2015) |
| Parent | Roscosmos |
| Website | kbkha.ru |
| Coordinates | 51.5844°N 39.1708°E |
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In 1965 A.D. Konopatov took over leadership. He was succeeded by V.S. Rachuk in 1993, then by Gorokhov Viktor Dmitrievich (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. The company has designed more than 60 liquid propellant engines with some 30 having entered production.
In November 2019, the КБХА and the Voronezh Mechanical Plant were merged.