-- The salaries of Energomash's employees are the highest in Khimky, the town where the company is located, said Alexander Malinskiy, company spokesman.
And check out these comments made by Boris Katorgin, Energomash general designer and published in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper on Tuesday:
Q: What if Americans, who now have experience with the manufacture of the RD-180-type of the engine, break the contract with Energomash and start making such engines themselves?
Katorgin: Even if we give the Americans all the technical documentation for free, they will need at least eight years to master [the RD-180] production. However, we made it clear in the agreements with the Americans that the RD-180 technology belongs to Russia forever. They have no legal right to use our technology for 20 years after the end of our bilateral cooperation.
Q: Dont you feel humiliated that one of the Russian leading aerospace enterprises is surviving with the help of U.S. money?
Katorgin: Energomash is surviving thanks to the brains of its employees and also because it can make the best rocket engines in the world and sell them in the international market. What is so bad about this? We are not selling to the Americans our most recent technologies.
Q: One of the most serious problems of the Russian aerospace industry is the aging of its employees. Does Energomash face such problem? Who will continue developing new engines d10 to 15 years from now?
Katorgin: There was a period when we were losing our specialists. This trend has been reversed, however. Young specialists are coming to the enterprise again. We have a special program for the hiring of the Moscow Aviation Institute graduates. I dont have to worry about the personnel continuity in Energomash.
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