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The President was shown around the prosthesis assembly room, the area where patients try them on and learn to walk on them, plus the kinesiotherapy and gait diagnosing room.

Vladimir Putin talked with the military participants in the special military operation who are receiving treatment and rehabilitation at the centre.

The President was accompanied by First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, Minister of Labour and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov, State Secretary – Deputy Defence Minister Anna Tsivileva, and Rostec Director General Sergei Chemezov. Explanations were provided by CITO Director General Viktor Spektor.

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The company was established in 1963 and currently has over 11,000 square metres of production floor space and 275 cutting-edge equipment items. It produces a broad range of individual technical means of rehabilitation such as high-tech protheses and orthopaedic devices for lower and upper limbs (including microprocessor controlled ones), fixation and functional corrective corsets, as well as braces. JSC CITO is actively using the components it itself produces, and its competitive products account for at least 30 percent of the domestic market.

The company has a barrier-free consulting and rehabilitation centre with modern equipment, including AI-based devices, for the comprehensive rehabilitation and habilitation of people with health conditions.

JSC CITO is a leader in manufacturing high-tech prosthetic devices for military participants in the special military operation. It has manufactured over 5,000 prostheses since 2022.

The company has branches in Belgorod, Kursk, Izhevsk, Kurgan and St Petersburg. In late November 2024, the Rostec State Corporation became a shareholder of JSC CITO.