In July 2021, in the Samara branch of the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Inventors (WIR), a solemn awarding of the winners of the regional review of rationalizing and inventiveness for 2020 was held.
Thanks to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Samara Region were awarded 14 employees of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”). Five people are recognized as the “best rationalizers”, five – the “best inventors”, four more became winners in the nomination “Best Organizer of Rationalizing Activities”. Among the awarded – employees of the aggregate-riveted workshop of the Rocket and Space Center: Lead Engineer-technologist Ekaterina Shushurina, Engineer-technologist of the 1st category Dmitry Enemov and Head of the shop Alexey Anatolyevich Paramonov.
One of the rationalization offers of young technologists concerned the adaptation of the stapel to assemble several elements of the design of the prospective launch vehicle “Soyuz-5”. The introduction of racming significantly reduced time and labor costs for the manufacture of the equipment.