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 ==