In announcing the new corporation in August 2013,
Russian Deputy Prime Minister
Dmitry Rogozin said "the failure-prone space sector is so troubled that it needs state supervision to overcome its problems." The name for the organization had first been provisionally floated in July 2013 when—three days following the failure of a
Proton M launch—the Russian government announced that "extremely harsh measures" would be taken "and spell the end of the [Russian] space industry as we know it." Rogozin indicated it would be "consolidate[d] under a single state-controlled corporation within a year." The company was founded in 2014 on the basis of the Scientific Research Institute of Space Instrumentation in order to implement the
decree of the
President of Russia No. 874 of December 2, 2013 "On the management system of the rocket and space industry". The decree stipulated that the corporation will take over manufacturing facilities from the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). The President of
Energia,
Vitaly Lopota was removed from his post as president on August 1, 2014. Dmitry Rogoziin indicated that this was the start of "Long-awaited personnel reform in [the Russian] space industry ... Tough times require tough decisions." In November 2014, it was announced that one part of the URSC charter is to increase the relative wages of those who work in the Russian space sector in order to attempt to counteract the low productivity and
brain drain that has been hindering the industry. The average space industry employee was then paid per month (, or approximately per year). URSC projected that the Russian space sector would employ 196,000 people by 2016. URSC's publicly-stated long-term goal in late 2014 was to increase productivity of the space sector, threefold while doubling real wages by 2025. ==Organization and entities==