In December 2019, Rosatom presented to the Russian government a quantum computing roadmap prepared as part of a broader Quantum Technology Roadmap developed under the federal project “Digital Technologies” of the national program “Digital Economy.” The roadmap was prepared by MISIS with input from more than 100 experts and covered four areas: quantum computing, quantum communications, quantum metrology and sensing, and enabling technologies.
According to the Rosatom Newsletter, the total budget of the program was 51.1 billion rubles (~$790 million), including 8.7 billion rubles to be contributed by private companies. Three major state-owned enterprises were assigned to lead specific domains: Rosatom for quantum computing, Russian Railways (RZD) for quantum communications, and Rostec for quantum sensing and metrology.
For quantum computing specifically, the draft roadmap projected total financing of 23.66 billion rubles for 2020 to 2024, with 13.25 billion rubles from the federal budget and 10.4 billion rubles from extrabudgetary sources. Rosatom itself committed to allocate 1.5 billion rubles from within the extrabudgetary funding. The roadmap set a goal of creating a 30-to-100 qubit quantum computer by 2024 and a 1,000-qubit machine by 2030.