Reactive Scientific Research Institute

Reactive Scientific Research Institute (RNII)
Katyusha rocket launchers firing during WWII, which were created at RNII
Parent institutionPeople's Commissariat of Heavy Industry
Founder(s)Gas Dynamics Laboratory and Group for the Study of Reactive Motion
Established21 September 1933
Key peopleSergei Korolev, Valentin Glushko
AddressOnezhskaya St, 8/10
Location, ,
Dissolved18 February 1944 transferred to the Scientific-Research Institute 1 (NII-1)
Awards:

Reactive Scientific Research Institute (commonly known by the joint initialism RNII; Russian: Реактивный научно-исследовательский институт, romanizedReaktivnyy nauchno-issledovatel’skiy institut)[note 1] was one of the first Soviet research and development institutions to focus on rocket technology. RNII developed the Katyusha rocket launcher[2] and its research and development were very important for later achievements of the Soviet rocket and space programs.

  1. ^ Chertok 2005, p. 9 Vol 1.
  2. ^ Chertok 2005, p. 167 Vol 1.


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