"Star"), is a Russian manufacturer of life-support systems for high-altitude flight and human spaceflight.

Its products include space suits, ejector seats, aircraft escape slides, lifejackets and fire extinguishers.

The organization was founded in 1952 to develop aviation pressure suits and in-flight refuelling systems for the USSR's space research programme.

The K-36 ejector seat was studied at length by the US Navy and Air Force; IBP Aircraft (currently UTC Aerospace Systems) opened up a factory in the US to manufacture it for the F-22 Raptor and the Joint Strike Fighter.

[5] The company also designed a unique complex consisting of ejection seat K-36RB for Buran space vehicle.