Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute

{{Expand Russian|Центральный аэрогидродинамический институт имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского|date=December 2018}}

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| name = Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute

| native_name = Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского

| native_name_lang = RU

| logo = Tsagi logo.jpg

| image = TsAGI with vertical tube autumn2006.jpg

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| image_caption = TsAGI's Engineering building (centre) and stall-spin testing aerodynamic tube (left, built 1941)

| type = federal state unitary enterprise

| industry = Aerospace

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| founded = {{Start date and age|1918}}

| founder = Nikolay Zhukovsky

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| hq_location_city = Zhukovsky

| hq_location_country = Russia

| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people ={{flatlist|

Kirill Sypalo - General Director
Sergey Chernyshev - Research Director}}

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| owner = Russian Federation

| num_employees = 4,392

| num_employees_year = 2013

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File:TsAGI autumn2006.jpg

The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, {{langx|ru|Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т, ЦАГИ|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.

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.{{cite book|pages=15–16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ygg66pf52OsC&pg=PA16|title=The Soviet armaments industry|isbn=978-3-7186-5313-3|last1=Albrecht|first1=Ulrich|last2=Nikutta|first2=Randolph|date=October 1993}} 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: {{ill|I. F. Petrov|lt=I. F. Petrov|ru|Петров, Иван Фёдорович (генерал-лейтенант)}}
1941–1950: S. N. Shishkin
1950–1960: A. I. Makarevsky
1960–1967: V. M. Myasishchev
1967–1989: {{ill|G. P. Swischjov|lt=G. P. Swischjov|ru|Свищёв, Георгий Петрович}}
1989–1995: G I. Zagaynov
1995–1998: V. Ja. Neuland
1998–2006: V. G. Dmitriyev
2006–2007: V. A. Kargopoltsev
2007–2009: {{ill|S. L. Chernyshev|lt=S. L. Chernyshev|ru|Чернышев, Сергей Леонидович}}
2009–2015: B. S. Aljoshin
2015–2018: S. L. Chernyshev
August 2018–present: K. I. Sypalo

Notable scientists (partial list)

References

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lfv5D_0hBM Historical video to celebrate first 100 years of TsAGI]
[http://www.buran-energia.com/instituts/tsagi.php TsAGI] in the Buran programme
[https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=14&ll=55.592606,38.11183&spn=0.022116,0.058107&t=k TsAGI] on Google Maps

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Category:Research institutes in Russia

Category:Research institutes in the Soviet Union

Category:Aviation in the Soviet Union

Category:Aerospace research institutes

Category:Aviation research institutes

Category:Federal State Unitary Enterprises of Russia

Category:Companies based in Moscow Oblast