Dmitry Bakanov replaces Yury Borisov as Roscosmos CEO - Kremlin

MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to relieve Yury Borisov of his duties as CEO of the Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the presidential press service said on Thursday.

Dmitry Bakanov has been appointed to the post of Roscosmos CEO.

Borisov was appointed to head Roscosmos in July 2022. Prior to that, he served as deputy prime minister overseeing the defense industry.

Bakanov was born in Leninsk (today the city of Baikonur) of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on October 7, 1985. In 2007, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance with a degree in economics. Bakanov headed the Gonets Satellite System company, the unified operator of Roscosmos' communications, broadcast and retransmission systems, from 2011 to 2019, when he joined the Russian Transport Ministry as director of its digital transformation department. He became deputy transport minister in 2022.