On February 7, 2018 it was 10 years as General Manager - General Designer of NPP "Zvezda" G. Severin, who headed the enterprise from 1964 to 2008, died.
Under his leadership the spacesuit and the ejection seat for Yuri Gagarin's flight, the lock chamber and the spacesuit for the world's first spacewalker Alexei Leonov were created, and the generation of spacesuits Orlan was developed that were used on the orbital space station Mir , and now on the ISS.