It was built by ISS Reshetnev and is based on the Ekspress-2000 satellite bus.

In February 2009, Gazprom ordered two Yamal-400 type satellites from Thales Alenia Space.

Thales Alenia Space was to be responsible for all aspects of the development and building of the satellites.

The launch took place from Site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, at 00:16:00 UTC on 15 December 2014.

The satellite was deployed into the planned geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).