Yuzhnoye Design Bureau Type: Commercial Abbreviation: OKB-586 Administration: Director: Alexander Degtyarev Founded: 1951 Launchers: Zenit Spacecraft: Country: UKR Yuzhnoye Design Office, located in Dnipro, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) established by Mikhail Yangel in 1951. The Zenit launch vehicle currently launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome but also used to launch from an ocean platform, Odyssey.