Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, 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.
Also recorded as Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute · TsAGI · ЦАГИ · Центральный аэрогидродинамический институт
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute

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- Name
- Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
- Founded
- 1918
- Founder
- Nikolay Zhukovsky
- Headquarters
- Zhukovsky
- Activity
- aerospace industry
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The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, 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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• Name — Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute • Native Name — Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского • Type — federal state unitary enterprise • Industry — Aerospace • Founder — Nikolay Zhukovsky • Hq Location City — Zhukovsky • Hq Location Country — Russia • Area Served — Worldwide • Key People — * Kirill Sypalo - General Director • Sergey Chernyshev - Research Director • Owner — Russian Federation • Num Employees — 4,392 • Num Employees Year — 2013 • Website — tsagi.com
History
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 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
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)
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
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Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute is recorded as founded by Nikolay Zhukovsky. Associated with Russia and Soviet Union. Recorded from 1918.
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1918
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute established.
1918
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute is recorded from 1918.
1984
Intermittency and local structure in shear turbulent flows Deposed to VINITI, N°4706-84, Moscow, 1984 (In Russian), part 2, pp 80-113 digitised by DataCite (TsAGI (Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute), Moscow).
2000
Scramjet Research and Development in Russia final draft of the chapter digitised by DataCite (TsAGI (Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute), Moscow).
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- 1.http://tsagi.com/pressroom/news/2255/
- 2.http://www.tsagi.ru/en/pressroom/news/1363/
- 3.About Us - TsAGI.
- 4.История - Об институте - ЦАГИ.
- 5.Instituto Central Aero-Hidrodinámico N. Ye. Zhukovski - EcuRed.
- 6.History - About Us - TsAGI.
- 7.Copia archivada.
- 8.ЦЕНТР АВИАЦИОННОЙ НАУКИ.
- 9.http://tsagi.com/pressroom/news/994/
- 10.Copia archivada.
- 11.https://www.ecured.cu/Alexander_Alexandrovich_Arjanguelsky
- 12.https://www.ecured.cu/Victor_Nikolayevich_Belyayev
- 13.http://aviastar.org/people/kamov/index.html
- 14.https://web.archive.org/web/20070315194511/http://www.biograph.ru/goldfund/okb_kamova.htm
- 15.Copia archivada.
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