Success Stories

Project Manager and Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Volodymyr Kukushkin, previously worked as the chief designer of the solid-propellant engines used in the SS-24 strategic missiles at the Pivdenne State Design Office. He still acts as a scientific consultant for PivdenMash, once the largest missile plant in the world.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Professor Kukushkin headed project development for Ukrainian wind energy. He gathered around him a team of scientists and specialists from the space rocket branch to carry out Project No2499, Monitoring Wind Energy Potential and Electrical Networks for the Adaptation of Contemporary Wind Turbines. The completion of the Project is the first attempt to lay a scientific foundation for wind power in Ukraine and to develop scientific forecasting for suitable locations to build wind energy stations. An important scientific achievement of the Project is the first-ever completed wind map at 50, 60 and 70 meters in Ukraine. The results of this project have been adopted by Ukraine’‘s Ministry of Fuel and Energy, which is working on the construction of wind energy stations using this normative document to provide a basis for choosing site locations.
Professor Kukushkin has received a proposal from Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan to conduct similar work for these states within the STCU program.