General Director of Roscosmos

The General Director of Roscosmos is the highest-ranked official of Roscosmos, the space agency of the Russian Federation. The director serves as the senior space science adviser to the President of Russia.

General Director of Roscosmos
Incumbent Dmitry Bakanov since 6 February 2025
Term length	At the pleasure of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	Yuri Koptev
Formation	25 February 1992 as successor for Soviet space program

The deputy director of Roscosmos serves as the agency's second in command and is responsible to the administrator for providing overall leadership, planning, and policy direction for the agency. They represent Roscosmos to the Presidential Administration, State Duma, heads of federal and other appropriate government agencies, international organizations, and external organizations and communities. They also oversee the day-to-day work of Roscosmos’ functional offices.

The first director was Yuri Koptev; who led the agency during a financial crisis, and established tourist flights to space, and was also the longest-running director, who held the post from 1992 to 2004.

The current director Dmitry Bakanov, was appointed by President Vladimir Putin on 6 February 2025.^[1][2]

Directors

Photograph	Name	Term start	Term end
	Yuri Koptev	25 February 1992	11 March 2004
	Anatoly Perminov	12 March 2004	28 April 2011
	Vladimir Popovkin	29 April 2011	10 October 2013
	Oleg Ostapenko	10 October 2013	21 January 2015
	Igor Komarov	21 January 2015	24 May 2018
	Dmitry Rogozin	24 May 2018[3]	15 July 2022
	Yury Borisov	15 July 2022	6 February 2025
	Dmitry Bakanov	6 February 2025	Incumbent

See also

• List of Administrators and Deputy Administrators of NASA