The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, , TsAGI) is a Russian national research centre for

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. 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

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'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

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's TsKB (''Tsentralnoye Konstruksionnoye Byuro'' means "Central Design Bureau") and an independent, short-lived Kalinin's team in

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. In 1935 TsAGI was partly relocated to the former

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settlement ''Otdykh'' (literally, "Relaxation") converted to the new

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''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: * 1941–1950: S. N. Shishkin * 1950–1960: A. I. Makarevsky * 1960–1967: V. M. Myasishchev * 1967–1989: * 1989–1995: G I. Zagaynov * 1995–1998: V. Ja. Neuland * 1998–2006: V. G. Dmitriyev * 2006–2007: V. A. Kargopoltsev * 2007–2009: * 2009–2015: B. S. Aljoshin * 2015–2018: S. L. Chernyshev * August 2018–present: K. I. Sypalo

Notable scientists (partial list)

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* Sergey Khristianovich * Yuri Ryzhov * Leonid Shkadov * Max Taitz * Vladimir Vetchinkin

References

External links

Historical video to celebrate first 100 years of TsAGI

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