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The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, Russian: Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т, ЦАГИ, romanized: Tsentral'nyy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut, TsAGI) is a Russian national research centre for aviation. It was founded in Moscow by Russian aviation pioneer Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky on December 1, 1918.

Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute

TsAGI's Engineering building (centre) and stall-spin testing aerodynamic tube (left, built 1941)
Native name	Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского
Company type	federal state unitary enterprise
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	1918; 106 years ago (1918)
Founder	Nikolay Zhukovsky
Headquarters	Zhukovsky , Russia
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Kirill Sypalo - General Director Sergey Chernyshev - Research Director
Owner	Russian Federation
Number of employees	4,392 (2013)
Website	tsagi.com

History

From 1925 and up to the 1930s, TsAGI developed and hosted Tupolev's AGOS (Aviatziya, Gidroaviatziya i Opytnoye Stroitelstvo, the "Aviation, Hydroaviation, and Experimental Construction"), the first aircraft design bureau in Soviet Union, and at the time the main one. In 1930, two other major aircraft design bureaus in the country were the Ilyushin's TsKB (Tsentralnoye Konstruksionnoye Byuro means "Central Design Bureau") and an independent, short-lived Kalinin's team in Kharkiv.

In 1935 TsAGI was partly relocated to the former dacha settlement Otdykh (literally, "Relaxation") converted to the new urban-type settlement Stakhanovo. It was named after Alexey Stakhanov, a famous Soviet miner. On April 23, 1947, the settlement was granted town status and renamed to Zhukovsky. The Moscow branch of the institute is known Moscow complex of TsAGI. In 1965 in Zhukovsky a Department of Aeromechanics and Flight Engineering of MIPT was established with support of TsAGI's research and knowledge base to educate specialists for aerospace industry.

Among TsAGI's developments are the participation in the rocket Energia and the Space Shuttle Buran projects.

Heads of the institute

1918–1921: N. Y. Zhukovsky
1921–1931: S. A. Chaplygin
1932–1937: N. M. Kharlamov
1938–1939: M. N. Shulzhenko
1940–1941: [ru]
1941–1950: S. N. Shishkin
1950–1960: A. I. Makarevsky
1960–1967: V. M. Myasishchev
1967–1989: [ru]
1989–1995: G I. Zagaynov
1995–1998: V. Ja. Neuland
1998–2006: V. G. Dmitriyev
2006–2007: V. A. Kargopoltsev
2007–2009: [ru]
2009–2015: B. S. Aljoshin
2015–2018: S. L. Chernyshev
August 2018–present: K. I. Sypalo

Notable scientists (partial list)

See also Category:Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute employees

Sergey Chaplygin
Anatoly Dorodnitsyn
Mstislav Keldysh
Sergei Korolev
Sergey Khristianovich
Yuri Ryzhov
Leonid Shkadov
Max Taitz
Vladimir Vetchinkin

References

Albrecht, Ulrich; Nikutta, Randolph (October 1993). The Soviet armaments industry. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-3-7186-5313-3.

External links

Historical video to celebrate first 100 years of TsAGI
TsAGI in the Buran programme
TsAGI on Google Maps

55°35′36″N 38°06′24″E / 55.59333°N 38.10667°E / 55.59333; 38.10667

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[arm-1] Albrecht, Ulrich; Nikutta, Randolph (October 1993). The Soviet armaments industry. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-3-7186-5313-3.