Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute

Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
Native name	Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского
Type	federal state unitary enterprise
Industry	aerospace
Founded	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	4392 (2013)
Website	tsagi.com

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

TsAGI

The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (Russian: Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т, ЦАГИ, romanized: Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut, TsAGI) 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.^[1] 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.^[1]

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 young specialists for aerospace industry.

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

In 2013 TsAGI developed a testbench for high-speed compound helicopters with propellers.^[2]

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

Famous scientist (partial list)

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

References

^ ^a ^b Albrecht, Ulrich; Nikutta, Randolph (October 1993). The Soviet armaments industry. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-3-7186-5313-3.
^ TsAGI has created a unique test bench for testing high-speed helicopters TsAGI, 13 December 2013

External links

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

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

[2] TsAGI has created a unique test bench for testing high-speed helicopters TsAGI, 13 December 2013

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