The foreign press is actively discussing the change in management at JSC (OKB) Tupolev

Delays in deliveries of Tu-160M ​​bombers, modernized Tu-22M3M and Tu-214 aircraft, the publication notes, “…underscore the ongoing production shortage in the Russian strategic aviation enterprise."

A leadership change has occurred at the Tupolev strategic aircraft manufacturer in Russia: 37-year-old Yuri Ambrosimov has been appointed CEO, replacing 76-year-old Alexander Petrovich Bobryshev, Defense Express reports, citing sources in the Russian industry.

The personnel changes occurred approximately a year after the previous management rotation at the Tupolev plant in 2024 and occurred amid escalating legal and financial disputes between the company and the Russian Ministry of Defense over unfulfilled defense contracts. Ambrosimov previously served as Deputy Managing Director for Economics and Finance before being appointed to the top position.

Tupolev manufactures Russian strategic bombers, including the Tu-22M3, Tu-160, and Tu-95MS, as well as the Tu-214 passenger jet, which, according to Russian sources, could be considered a potential dual-use platform. The company's primary production facility is the Kazan Aviation Plant, where Tu-214 aircraft are built, new Tu-160M ​​bombers are assembled, and previously produced ones are modernized as part of the refurbishment program. Tu-22M3 bombers are modernized to the Tu-22M3M standard.

Defense Express reported that the leadership change occurred after a cumulative number of complaints from the Russian Ministry of Defense regarding non-fulfillment of contractual obligations. In May 2025, the Moscow Arbitration Court ruled in favor of the ministry and ordered Tupolev to pay 3 billion rubles in a lawsuit filed in the summer of 2024. In June 2025, the ministry filed an additional claim for 0,9 billion rubles due to further non-fulfillment of obligations.

According to the same report, these claims are believed to be related to unfinished maintenance or upgrades of strategic aircraft. Open-source data indicates that the cost of one Tu-160M ​​bomber is approximately 15-16 billion rubles, while repairs or upgrades of Tu-95MS aircraft range from 3,77 to 5,3 billion rubles per aircraft, depending on the company. The total amount of the lawsuits, 3,9 billion rubles, would cover, at best, the overhaul of one Tu-95MS.

Aircraft delivery delays also affected key Russian strategic aviation programs. Defense Express noted that the Russian Ministry of Defense was supposed to receive four Tu-160M ​​bombers in 2025, which were produced at the Kazan plant between 2022 and 2023. Only two of these aircraft were delivered to the Russian armed forces in early 2026, and the reasons for the delay were not made public.

The Tu-22M3M modernization program is also progressing slowly. Only two aircraft have been modernized under the program: one in 2018 and the other in 2023, despite earlier announcements by the plant's management of plans to modernize up to 30 new-production long-range bombers.

Civilian aircraft production has faced similar problems. According to Defense Express, Tupolev planned to deliver three Tu-214 passenger jets in 2023, but delivered none. Ten aircraft were planned for 2024, but only one was delivered. These delays have led to additional lawsuits from commercial customers, including a 6,2 billion ruble lawsuit filed by the Russian company Tatneft for undelivered aircraft.

The Tu-214 program has attracted the attention of the foreign press because the aircraft is produced at the same plant as Russian strategic bombers. Russian commentators have previously called for the conversion of this passenger aircraft into a "mobilization missile carrier" capable of carrying cruise missiles. missiles X-101 or X-22, which makes the program relevant for military production, even though it is listed as a civilian product.

Defense Express wrote that the repeated changes in the leadership of the Tupolev company indicate that "Russian authorities are aware of the problems in the technological potential and production capacity of the country's aviation sector and are trying to solve them by changing the leadership at key defense enterprises."

Comments

[Same lech]

What can I say...the problem is systemic and you can't solve it by rearranging seats and pouring in money.

[SERGE ANT]

The brothel's revenue has dropped. The owner is bustling about, moving furniture, changing curtains, and updating the sign. The old cleaning lady looks on and says:
- Sons, what are you doing?
- Yes, grandma, we rearrange the furniture according to Feng Shui so that our income increases!
"Oh, you silly ones... I worked here before the Revolution. When our revenue dropped, we didn't move the beds, we changed the girls!"

[tsvetahaki]

Quote: SERGE ant

We didn't move the beds, we changed the girls!

There are no girls... And those that are there are capable of driving away clients altogether...

[Civil]

Ambrosimov previously held the position of Deputy Managing Director for Economics and Finance

Chief accountant.

Abrasimov is the grandson of Yuri Litvinov, who headed the Kazan Aviation Plant (KAZ) in the 90s.

The grandson of a "red director." Apparently the son of an effective manager?

It turns out that this world-famous company already has its 7th chief executive in 11 years.

[marchcat]

Capitalism and the stupidity of management lead to precisely these consequences. And no matter how you sit down, friends, you're still unfit to be "musicians."

[Il'nur]

Capitalism and the stupidity of the leadership lead to such consequences.

And how they fed us the lies in the 90s, destroying everything and everyone, that the market would rule, that the capitalist would restore order, and there would be development...
As a result, everything was destroyed, and there is no market...

[Ksavier]

The market does exist, but it doesn't actually resolve anything. It just pockets everything.

[Stirbjorn]

Quote: Civil

The grandson of a "red director." Apparently the son of an effective manager?

Well, Rogozin's son was also in charge of Ilom, so it's not surprising.

[Piramidon]

Quote from tsvetahaki

We didn't move the beds, we changed the girls

So they change the girls (directors), but it's no use. The whole brothel needs to be rebuilt.

[Alf]

Quote: Piramidon

The entire brothel needs to be rebuilt.

Be careful with such proposals; the Criminal Code article on calls for change of the constitutional order in Russia has not yet been repealed. Otherwise, it will be like the joke about the plumber in the city committee.

[wladimirjankov]

The personnel changes took place approximately a year after the previous management rotation at the Tupolev plant in 2024.

It's like Krylov's fable: "No matter how you sit, friends, you're still no good at being musicians." These changes will be of no use as long as the aviation industry is run by UAC and Rostec, headed by Chemezov and his incompetent subordinates.

[Alf]

Quote: wladimirjankov

As long as the aviation industry is run by UAC and Rostec, headed by Chemezov and his incompetent subordinates.

Yes, yes, and who gathers them at the top???

[Il'nur]

UAC and Rostec, headed by Chemezov

You're attacking something sacred. You know whose protégé Chemezov is...

[Alexey Lantukh]

If Chemezov had been replaced by someone else at UAC, would the situation have been better? I don't think so. It's just that the production of large aircraft depends heavily on subcontractors, some of whom simply disappeared in the 90s and early 2000s. The 214, for example, was supposedly a completely domestic aircraft, but when sanctions were imposed, it turned out that some of the parts were imported and could no longer be supplied. And not all of these parts are produced in Russia, and the quality isn't quite there. That's why production of the 214 stalled.

[Monster_Fat]

There's just one problem: the Ministry of Defense thinks weapons and equipment cost whatever they decide... Like they know better, right? This reminds me of the unforgettable Saltykov-Shchedrinsky poem: "How One Man Fed Two Generals"... Well, nothing has changed in the military's mentality since then. Absolutely nothing, unfortunately.

[Ksavier]

Well, the factory signs contracts with the military. They should know the deadlines and costs. And when the military wants planes for so much money, they say, "No, we can't physically make them for so much." The problem here is most likely that, like in any production facility, there's a severe labor shortage, as top management pockets the money, leaving the workers to suffer. Problems with equipment and protective clothing are also likely. This all results in missed deadlines. And it's also possible that some components have to be purchased from China. And these guys also have their own agenda: "We'll sell it now, but we won't sell it tomorrow, lest we fall under US sanctions."

[Totor5]

As previously reported, the Ministry of Defense enters into contracts below cost, and the plant is forced to produce TK; the plant has no other customers besides the Ministry of Defense.
The state then recoups the difference through preferential loans, debt write-offs to state-owned banks, and so on. But this is a long and flawed process—I would even say flawed and wrong. It's logical that no one wants to work with the Ministry of Defense, while everyone wants to work with, say, Indians.

We need systemic reform; we need to recreate the Aviation Ministry, and it should govern aviation, not like it is now, where the Minister of Transport and Rail Transport controls aviation—isn't that crazy?

[barbos]

Monya, do you really think it's any different in the American army? Oh, vey, I beg you, don't make such a joke.

[Mikhail3]

Quote: The same Lech

What can I say...the problem is systemic and you can't solve it by rearranging seats and pouring in money.

Why? A financial specialist has been appointed. He has methods. Now he'll cut workers' wages and dramatically increase fines for everything, including air pollution. Then he'll radically raise the salaries of the company's top brass. And, as the final touch to this glorious restructuring, he'll flee to London with the proceeds of his tenure. This has happened hundreds of times, and it will happen again. Apparently, our management prefers these types of strengthening and deepening.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Ambrosimov previously served as deputy managing director for economics and finance before being appointed to the top post.

So what was this Amrosimov's salary?
Did the new manager keep the same salary for himself or did he increase it due to the director’s extremely difficult, inhuman, simply hellish and backbreaking work?

[Stas157]

Quote: Obi Wan Kenobi

So what was this Amrosimov's salary?

The salaries of senior management are classified. It's one of our country's state secrets.

[AA17]

The salaries of senior management are classified. It's one of our country's state secrets.

+.

It's like that joke.
There are two.
- Where do you work?
- Yes, at a military factory.
- What are you doing?
- Bombs, shells.
- How much do you get?
- This is a military secret.

[dmi.pris1]

Let them be classified. The main thing is that they depend on the result, and not on grandiose plans...

[Stas157]

Quote from: dmi.pris1

The main thing is that they depended from the result, and not from grandiose plans...

How will you know this correlation if salaries are classified? You can't even verify it.

[dmi.pris1]

Well, I don't really need to know. First of all, there are planes at the airfields.

[Stas157]

Quote from: dmi.pris1

First of all, planes at airfields

You were told about a thousand civilian aircraft by 30. Just be patient!

[Alf]

Quote: Stas157

The salaries of senior management are classified. It's one of our country's state secrets.

That's right, no need to rock the boat... Otherwise, suddenly the enemies will find out...

[bk316]

And the new manager kept the same salary for himself.

Somehow you write unclearly.
The new manager is Ambrosimov.

[Vadim S]

Why write "according to the publication," "according to the article," and the like? You should just say "that's how it is." People aren't stupid; everyone already knows things are even worse!

[Dedok]

In Russia, there has been a change in leadership at the Tupolev strategic aircraft manufacturer: 37-year-old Yuri Ambrosimov has been appointed CEO, replacing 76-year-old Alexander Petrovich Bobryshev.

and you, tell me: what about the personnel situation at the plant?
How about training/retraining of personnel?
What is the salary of those who perform the work that creates added value?
Yes, and most importantly - are the subcontractors for the implementation of the state contract still "alive"?
And talking about fines, general directors, etc. is not the most important thing right now...
Speaking of fines: are contracts for the supply of aircraft signed with a single supplier?
That is, KAZ is being "arm-twisted" when signing...
Are the deadlines specified in the contracts - based on the capabilities of KAZ or based on the "wants" of the Russian Ministry of Defense (reports "to the top" that everything is fine with us)?

[Engineer]

and you, tell me: what about the personnel situation at the plant?

Well, around 15, things were relatively good, both in terms of personnel and equipment. I can't speak for salaries—I didn't ask. But yeah, it would certainly take a month to ruin it, let alone 10 years... well, at least the equipment should have been preserved.

And are contracts for the supply of aircraft signed with a single supplier?

Well, something like that. There's a lead contractor, he receives the funds and distributes them to subcontractors, and accordingly, the main anal punishments are his.

[Good Evil]

Quote: Dedok

By the way, about fines:

Speaking of fines: are they imposed on the company's management personally, or are they imposed on the entire organization? In my opinion, the former option would be preferable!

[Dedok]

Speaking of fines: are they imposed on the company's management personally, or are they imposed on the entire organization? In my opinion, the former option would be preferable!

We read Federal Law 275, with all the changes, although much of it is now closed.
Fines are always imposed on the organization.
then they can be billions...
but from the outside it looks like money is being "shifted from one pocket to another"...

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Dedok

everything is fine with us

You've said it all correctly. The point isn't that the 76-year-old CEO has stopped catching mice. He's a distinguished man and should long ago be vacationing in a luxurious private dacha, courtesy of the state. (For his services to the country!) The point is that an airframe isn't an airplane! It's a skeleton, which our aerodynamicists have honed to perfection. But when it comes to the "mince" (the filling—modern avionics), we're in a complete jam! Subcontractors can't keep up, because their tooling and technology are still in the 20th century and they're physically incapable of producing mass-produced products. And what they do produce is a one-off. It's a similar story in shipbuilding. It's no wonder Putin recently held a Security Council meeting on the development of microelectronics and the component base. They decided to invest a whole trillion rubles in the industry. BUT TIME HAS BEEN LOST!!! It's too late to cry "rape" when it's time to give birth!
The only hope is for the strategic nuclear forces and the Russian character (well, maybe also "Baba Yaga" )

[Dedok]

Subcontractors are not up to the task because they are still in the 20th century in terms of equipment and technology and are physically unable to produce mass-produced products.

We still need time to certify their products before installing them on aircraft: after all, we are modernizing the technology and the products are "new"...
and certification is not a snap of the fingers.

[Alf]

Quote: Boa constrictor KAA

It's no wonder Putin recently held a Security Council meeting on the development of microelectronics and the component base.

He also held meetings of the Security Council on import substitution...

Quote: Boa constrictor KAA

They decided to invest a whole trillion rubles into the industry.

Apparently, someone decided that their pockets were empty.

[barbos]

Subcontractors are not up to the task because they are still in the 20th century in terms of equipment and technology and are physically unable to produce mass-produced products.

People are simply nostalgic for the times of thaw and stagnation.

[Samoyed]

Unfortunately, Putin and the rest of the elite haven't grasped this simple "truth." No amount of money can "buy" time, which ultimately "delivers" a product. Time is money, but money isn't time. Even if you paid me a million, I wouldn't be able to do ten pull-ups. But if you gave me time, I'd practice. And in a month, for a few thousand, I'd be able to do fifteen. Something like that.

[Alexey Lantukh]

Yes, and most importantly - are the subcontractors for the implementation of the state contract still "alive"?

That's exactly it: it's the subcontractors who are the ones who let us down. After all, the KAZ is basically the aircraft's assembler, and of course, its tuner and adjuster.

[Alien ...]

What other supplier would you sign these contracts with? You have an aircraft factory at every tram stop? The Ministry of Defense could sign an aircraft contract with Mars, but it'll only get WHISKAS... At the price of a Tu-160...

[Engineer]

Russian commentators have previously called for the conversion of this passenger aircraft into a “mobilization missile carrier” capable of carrying Kh-101 or Kh-22 cruise missiles.

Yeah, that would have been an interesting creation of a dark northern genius... I take it the phrase "has no equivalent in the world" was the fundamental and only motivation here?

[Konnick]

Ambrosimov previously served as deputy managing director for economics and finance before being appointed to the top post.

What the hell is this...an accountant will be managing engineers again...
Not everything depends on money, isn't it clear?

[Dedok]

Not everything depends on money, isn't it clear?

Those who make decisions don't think it's necessary to think about this...
The main thing is to report correctly...

[Mishka78]

There is also good news in civilian life!
Finally, Domodedovo Airport, wrested from the ineffective Kamenshchik for less than half the price, has been handed over to Sheremetyevo, owned by the highly effective Dr. Rotenberg! Hurray!

[Ross xnumx]

Tupolev produces Russian strategic bombers, including the Tu-22M3, Tu-160, and Tu-95MS, as well as the Tu-214 passenger jet, which, according to Russian sources, could be considered as potential dual-use platforms.

The Tupolev company pretends to produce Russian strategic bombers, including the Tu-22M3, Tu-160, and Tu-95MS, as well as the Tu-214 passenger jet, which, according to Russian sources, could be considered potential dual-use platforms, while in reality it is engaged in routine sabotage and waste of already meager budget funds... Therefore, the results of this company's work can be examined under a microscope...

[Gpn27]

An effective manager has been appointed. He will reduce production costs, as he comes from a financial background, and will produce attractive reports. That's all.

[bk316]

How can you appoint a 37 year old kid as the general director of Tupolev?!

Well, 37 is better than 76.

[Samoyed]

There's a science called cybernetics. Its laws apply to all controlled systems, from a toilet cistern to a state and beyond. One of its laws is that the control system must be more complex than the controlled object/system. For example, if you have one switch and two light bulbs, you can't light them in any combination, say, separately.
So, this person has experience participating in complex projects; he knows at least how the systems/parts in an airplane are interconnected, he has an understanding of production technology, at least the advantages of different production methods... And most importantly, he has the life experience to understand people, their psychology, their qualifications, their motives... After all, a good leader works with and creates a team in which the leading specialists are better and more talented in their field than he is. Only then will they not ignore problems, but will raise them themselves and solve them.
The personnel training system under Putin's regime is clearly inferior to the Soviet one, when engineers rose to General Designer. The intellect and ideology of the generalized "Putin" are clearly too short for governing Russia.

[Alf]

Quote: Boyarin pomestnoy konnicy

He is still a goldfinch, who has never smelled gunpowder.

But he smelled gunpowder in money...

[Chack wessel]

I remember Krylov wrote a good analytical article about the change in management at JSC (OKB) Tupolev:

[Melior]

76 years old! They could have waited until they carried him out feet first!

[north 2]

Personnel doesn't decide everything. The elevator, i.e. the system into which the system places these personnel for "rising to the top," also decides a lot. Only today's naive system forgets that the elevator can move not only up, but also down. Under the great Stalin, when the Soviet system in industry, including the military-industrial complex, had to overcome in a couple of decades the path that Western countries had overcome in a hundred years, then the Soviet system placed young personnel in the elevator for their career advancement; young engineers quickly became very successful directors of the greatest factories, and young directors of factories quickly became Ministers of the main branches of the economy and industry. Moreover, this elevator of the Soviet system under Stalin, in my opinion, never once pushed them down. An example of this was the continuation of the elevator up the career ladder of the Soviet system under Brezhnev. That is why they created great examples of rockets, airplanes, and other types that we still use today, but it is better to create What's stopping you? Is it the staff or the elevator in the system?

[Alf]

Quote: north 2

elevator in the system?

[Totor5]

But we must not forget that under Stalin, up to 1 million Americans worked on construction sites in the USSR, serving as chief engineers in many places - from the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station to tractor and automobile factories.

[Scientist]

Well, why bother with small things, 100 million.
Although, it's true, in the 30s, a lot of foreign specialists were attracted, often as managers. After all, the West was in the Great Depression, so they were happy to come.

[AdAstra]

Are they moving the beds again?

[BAI]

In May 2025, the Moscow Arbitration Court ruled in favor of the ministry and ordered Tupolev to pay 3 billion rubles in damages for a lawsuit filed in the summer of 2024. In June 2025, the ministry filed an additional claim for 0,9 billion rubles due to continued failure to fulfill its obligations.

Shifting money from one government pocket to another

[bk316]

There's nothing much to discuss here.
The man was 76 years old.
What the hell kind of CEO is he at 76?

[Alf]

Quote: bk316

What the hell kind of CEO is he at 76?

Counter question: what is it like at 37?

[faiver]

Comrade pensioner, at 37 he could be a pretty good general manager, age is no indicator, what's bad is that he's a financier, but he should be a production person...

[Vasily_Ostrovsky]

Are we seriously going to discuss the news from a Ukrainian information portal about our strategic aviation?
At first I didn't even believe that this was being published here and... commented on in essence.
We arrived ...
It's just that all the comments about modern weapons, especially from the media of the enemy fighting against us, are very similar to...

[gromila78]

Unfortunately, negative news in our country is not discussed in major media outlets due to the risk of losing the boat's transverse stability. However, there were articles on the portal about CEO changes and the crisis in the aviation industry, and information about the Ministry of Defense's lawsuits against companies can be found in open sources, as court decisions are publicly available.

[Evgeny_4]

The management at the Kazan aviation plant has not changed!
Mirgalimov was and remains the director.
The managing director at Tupolev has changed. Abrasimov has replaced Bobryshev.

[Fangaro]

Quote: Eugene_4

The management at the Kazan aviation plant has not changed!
Mirgalimov was and remains the director.
The managing director at Tupolev has changed. Abrasimov has replaced Bobryshev.

Who, or rather which legal entity, is most responsible for fulfilling government contracts?
From the Tupolev Design Bureau or from the Kazan Aircraft Plant?

[easy]

It's good that they're putting a young manager in charge, but the question is, how much will it help? Will he uplift the plant's workforce and improve production? Will he understand the core of the problems? That's what's needed, but will he also be able to put his whole heart and soul into it?

[Samoyed]

This is precisely why a statist ideology is needed. This is precisely what the ruling oligarchic capitalist class and their protégé, Putin, completely reject. After all, he will have to not only promote and push through many things within himself, but also with his neighbors, partners, and government officials. Without falling for liberal sabotage, or the falsification of reports and certificates...

[Art. TO]

[quote][And this is why the ideology of the statist is needed./quote]
Is there any shortcoming in that phrase about the "state ideology"? :) What kind of "state"? Judging by the following words: if it's capitalist, then "neighbors/allied companies and government officials," in their ideology of competitive self-interest, are mutually hostile "saboteurs and cheaters." And to be in a partnership in a common national economy, we need to polish the Soviet socialism abandoned by the "communist defrocked" in 53.

[16112014nk]

Quote: Ksavier

There is a market, after all.

This is not a market - it's a bazaar.

[Scientist]

Well, here we go again, an accountant. At the helm of a highly complex technological production facility. You're on the right track, comrades. To completely destroy the company.