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{{Short description|Russian aerospace research centre}}
{{Expand Russian|Центральный аэрогидродинамический институт имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского|date=December 2018}}
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| name = Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
| native_name = Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского
| native_name_lang = RU
| logo = Tsagi logo.jpg
| image = TsAGI with vertical tube autumn2006.jpg
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| image_caption = TsAGI's Engineering building (centre) and stall-spin testing aerodynamic tube (left, built 1941)
| type = [[federal state unitary enterprise]]
| industry = [[Aerospace]]
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1918}}
| founder = [[Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky|Nikolay Zhukovsky]]
| defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| hq_location_city = [[Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast|Zhukovsky]]
| hq_location_country = Russia
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people ={{flatlist|
* Kirill Sypalo - General Director
* Sergey Chernyshev - Research Director}}
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| owner = [[Russia|Russian Federation]]
| num_employees = 4,392
| num_employees_year = 2013
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| website = {{URL|tsagi.com}}
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[[File:TsAGI autumn2006.jpg|right|thumb|TsAGI]]
The '''Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute''' (also ('''Zhukovsky''') '''Central Institute of Aerodynamics''', {{langx|ru|Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т, ЦАГИ|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.

==History==
From 1925 and up to the 1930s, TsAGI developed and hosted [[Andrei Tupolev|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.<ref name=arm>{{cite book|pages=15–16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ygg66pf52OsC&pg=PA16|title=The Soviet armaments industry|isbn=978-3-7186-5313-3|last1=Albrecht|first1=Ulrich|last2=Nikutta|first2=Randolph|date=October 1993}}</ref> In 1930, two other major aircraft design bureaus in the country were the [[Sergei Ilyushin|Ilyushin]]'s TsKB (''Tsentralnoye Konstruksionnoye Byuro'' means "Central Design Bureau") and an independent, short-lived [[Konstantin Kalinin|Kalinin]]'s team in [[Kharkiv]].<ref name=arm/>

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&nbsp;23, 1947, the settlement was granted town status and renamed to [[Zhukovsky (city, Moscow Oblast)|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 (rocket)|Energia]] and the [[Buran program|Space Shuttle Buran]] projects.

== Heads of the institute ==
* 1918–1921: [[Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky|N. Y. Zhukovsky]]
* 1921–1931: [[Sergey Chaplygin|S. A. Chaplygin]]
* 1932–1937: N. M. Kharlamov
* 1938–1939: M. N. Shulzhenko
* 1940–1941: {{ill|I. F. Petrov|lt=I. F. Petrov|ru|Петров, Иван Фёдорович (генерал-лейтенант)}}
* 1941–1950: S. N. Shishkin
* 1950–1960: A. I. Makarevsky
* 1960–1967: [[Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev|V. M. Myasishchev]]
* 1967–1989: {{ill|G. P. Swischjov|lt=G. P. Swischjov|ru|Свищёв, Георгий Петрович}}
* 1989–1995: G I. Zagaynov
* 1995–1998: V. Ja. Neuland
* 1998–2006: V. G. Dmitriyev
* 2006–2007: V. A. Kargopoltsev
* 2007–2009: {{ill|S. L. Chernyshev|lt=S. L. Chernyshev|ru|Чернышев, Сергей Леонидович}}
* 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 Alekseevich Ryzhov|Yuri Ryzhov]]
* [[Leonid Shkadov]]
* [[Max Taitz]]
* [[Vladimir Vetchinkin]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lfv5D_0hBM Historical video to celebrate first 100 years of TsAGI] 
*[http://www.buran-energia.com/instituts/tsagi.php TsAGI] in the [[Buran programme]]
*[https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=14&ll=55.592606,38.11183&spn=0.022116,0.058107&t=k TsAGI] on [[Google Maps]]

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[[Category:Research institutes in Russia]]
[[Category:Research institutes in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Aviation in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Aerospace research institutes]]
[[Category:Aviation research institutes]]
[[Category:Federal State Unitary Enterprises of Russia]]
[[Category:Companies based in Moscow Oblast]]

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