It has produced turbojet and turboprop engines for military and civil use, including Blackjack and Backfire bombers and Tu-154 transports.

Samara Frunze also produced engines for the Salyut spacecraft and for the Mir space station.

[3] Re-established as the joint-stock company Motorostroitel in 1994, it retained this denomination until 2010, when it was merged with several other Samara-based engine plants on the verge of bankruptcy.

[5] In 2016 the company announced plans to produce a modernized version of its NK-32 engine by the end of the year.

Kuznetsov aircraft engines include: Kuznetsov industrial gas turbines include: In 1959, Sergey Korolev ordered a new design of rocket engine from the Kuznetzov Bureau for the Global Rocket 1 (GR-1) Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS)[citation needed] intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was developed but never deployed.

[7] As of 2011, the aging NK-33 remains the most efficient (in terms of thrust-to-mass ratio) LOX/Kerosene rocket engine ever created.