It is responsible for building and operating the Soyuz family of rockets, which serve as the primary launch vehicles for the Russian space program.

There, at the newly established "Progress" factory, workers produced Ilyushin Il-2 and Il-10 aircraft alongside the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3.

[4] After the war ended, the Progress factory began manufacturing jet aircraft, starting with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 and MiG-15 fighters in 1946.

[4] Meanwhile, the R-7 Semyorka, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), was under development at OKB-1 in Kaliningrad, a Soviet design bureau led by rocket pioneer Sergei Korolev.

Initially designed to deliver nuclear warheads to American targets, it was first successfully tested on 21 August 1957.

On 2 January 1958, the USSR Council of Ministers approved converting the Progress factory to mass-produce the R-7 missiles.

Under Dmitry Kozlov’s leadership, this office evolved into the independent Central Specialized Design Bureau (TsSKB, Russian: Центральное Специализированное Конструкторское Бюро [ЦСКБ], romanized: Tsentral'noye Spetsializirovannoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro) in 1974.

With ongoing upgrades, Soyuz rockets remain a reliable launch vehicle for crewed and uncrewed missions.