Team

A team with decades behind aviation

The project's main asset is its designers, production engineers and test specialists with experience from Augur, Atlas, Khrunichev, Bauman and MAI. Office and design bureau — in Moscow.

Key specialists

Fyodor Konstantinov

Technical Director

Fyodor Konstantinov

Overall technical oversight, project selection, stratospheric systems, partner design bureaus and microturbines. STANKIN Moscow State Technical University; experience at the Khrunichev Space Center and the Angara rocket programme.

  • STANKIN
  • Khrunichev Center
  • Angara rocket
A light hand, a clear mind, a tailwind. Buckle up — we're taking off.
Boris Ivchenko

Head of Design Bureau

Boris Ivchenko

PhD in Engineering, academician of the Academy of Aviation and Aeronautics Sciences, Bauman MSTU. 40+ years of experience, 30+ publications, patents. Design solutions and certification.

  • PhD (Eng.)
  • Bauman MSTU
  • 40+ years
  • 30+ papers
The path is clear, the standards exist — time to get to work.
Vadim Zubkevich

Chief Airship Designer

Vadim Zubkevich

Bauman MSTU, 40 years of experience, 16 years as chief designer at Augur RosAeroSystems and the Atlas bureau. Structural layout, aerodynamics, certification. Google Loon and AU-30 experience.

  • Bauman MSTU
  • Augur
  • Atlas bureau
  • Google Loon
A worthy heir to the zeppelin era — zeppelins of a new generation.
Dmitry Khmel

Chief Research Officer

Dmitry Khmel

PhD in Engineering, MAI. Chief designer of AEROLET-01: hybrid aircraft, controllability, dynamics, flight performance and stabilization algorithms.

  • PhD (Eng.)
  • MAI
  • AEROLET-01
A sensible compromise between the classic shape, new powerplants and control systems.
Andrey Kostyukov

Chief Microturbine Designer

Andrey Kostyukov

Microturbines of 30–50, 300 and 400 kW, recuperators and powerplants for airships. Continuing the GAZ engineering school.

  • Microturbines 30–400 kW
  • GAZ school
The principle is simple, but building such an engine is very hard. We took it on — and we'll deliver.
Milad Ranaei

Lead Software Engineer

Milad Ranaei

Automatic control systems and AI, the operator application, waypoint planning. Presented on the VISTA stage at Dubai Airshow 2025.

  • Control systems & AI
  • Dubai Airshow 2025
We turn airship control from a flat map into volume — the operator must see the flight in 3D.