UEC NPO Saturn, PJSC is a Russian aircraft engine manufacturer, formed from the mergers of Rybinsk Motors and Lyul'ka-Saturn (after Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka) in 2001.[2] Saturn's engines power many former Eastern Bloc aircraft, such as the Tupolev Tu-154.Saturn holds a 50% stake in the PowerJet joint venture with Safran Aircraft Engines.The company, founded by Pavel Soloviev, has its headquarters in the town of Rybinsk.
History
UEC Saturn was established in 2001, following the merger of Rybinsk Motors and Lyulka-Saturn.[3]
Rybinsk Motors was established on 20 October 1916 as the Russian Renault automotive plant. In 1917 it started producing aviation engines for the Ilya Muromets aircraft.The company was nationalized in 1918.[4]
Rybinsk was originally known as the Kolesov Engine Design Bureau. Kolesov took over the organization from V.A. Dobrynin who founded it in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Under Kolesov's direction, the bureau designed turbojet engines for the Myasishchev M-50 Bounder experimental supersonic bomber, turbojets for the Tu-22 Blinder medium bomber, RD-36-35FVR lift engines for the Yak-38 Forger, RD-36-51A supersonic engines for the Tu-144 SST, RD-36-51V engines for the Myasishchev M-17 Mystic, and lift engines for the Yak-141 Freestyle.[5]
Lyulka-Saturn was named after its founder, A. M. Lyulka.[5]
Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the Ukrainians refused to supply the Russian Navy with marine gas turbines from Zorya-Mashproekt, and so Saturn has been commissioned to design new engines for the Admiral Gorshkov and Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates.USC forecast these new engines will be available in 2017–18, allowing ships to be commissioned from 2020.[6]
UEC Saturn announced in April 2017 that Saturn's marine turbines are now in production and undergoing sea trials prior to delivery.[7] This is the first venture by a Russian manufacturer into the production of large marine gas turbines, aimed at completely replacing the earlier Ukrainian equivalents.[8]
DT 59, DK 59, DN 59, DE 59, D063, DR77 DS 77 DN 77, DD 50, DO 75, DM 71 DR 71 DP 71 DS 71, DR 76, DM 76, DA 90, DO 90, DA 91.
Rocket engines
LREs
Vernier, other
Snow mobile
"Russkaya Mekhanika“ company is the manufacturer of snowmobiles Tajga and Buran, Approximately 10,000 are produced annually. It is a 100% affiliated company of NPO Saturn. The snowmobiles have been produced in Rybinsk in the Yaroslavl Oblast. (approx. 400 km north of Moscow) since 1971.
5.Russian Defense Business Directory Federation of American Scientists, US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration, May 1995, retrieved 21 July 2017^
