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.
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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: 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
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