The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, , 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. 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 Konstantin 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 as the Moscow complex of TsAGI. In 1965 the Department of Aeromechanics and Flight Engineering of MIPT was established in Zhukovsky to educate specialists for aerospace industry.
TsAGI participated in the Energia rocket 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) 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
External links Historical video to celebrate first 100 years of TsAGI TsAGI in the Buran programme