Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute

Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
Native name
Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т имени профессора Н. Е. Жуковского
Company typefederal state unitary enterprise
IndustryAerospace
Founded1918; 106 years ago (1918)
FounderNikolay Zhukovsky
Headquarters,
Russia
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Kirill Sypalo - General Director
  • Sergey Chernyshev - Research Director
OwnerRussian Federation
Number of employees
4,392 (2013)
Websitetsagi.com
TsAGI

The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, Russian: Центра́льный аэрогидродинами́ческий институ́т, ЦАГИ, romanizedTsentral'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.