It is based on the Ekspress-1000H satellite bus manufactured by ISS Reshetnev.

Its mass at launch is 1,726 kg (3,805 lb), and the power allocated to the payload is about 5.880 kW.

The satellite carries 32 Ku-band transponders, providing satellite television to Western and Central Russia, as well as Western and Central Siberia, and almost all of Kazakhstan.

[3][4] It was launched, with Ekspress-AT2 communications satellite, on 15 March 2014 at 23:08:00 UTC, from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Site 81/24 in the framework of Russian Federal Space Program for 2006–2015, approved by the Government Decree No.

635 signed on 22 October 2005 by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.