The institution, which we will meet in this article, is one of the strategically significant for the state. After all, it is he who is engaged in a serious and relevant field - the development of nuclear munitions, as well as components for them. It is about VNIIA them. Spirit. We invite you to get acquainted with the specifics of the activity, the structure of the institute and other interesting facts about it.
About Institute
VNIIA them. Dukhov - All-Russian Research Institute of Automatics named after Nikolai Leonidovich Dukhov. This wonderful man was the designer of thermonuclear, nuclear weapons, armored vehicles. Dukhov N. L. - Doctor of Technical Sciences, corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Three times a hero of Socialist labor, winner of the Stalin, Lenin Prize.
Federal unitary state enterprise VNIIA im. Dukhov is based on the development of nuclear weapons, is one of the leading links of Rosatom.
The main directions of the Institute's work relate to industry and defense. This is in particular:
- nuclear ammunition;
- device automation of such ammunition, their non-nuclear elements;
- various devices for detonating nuclear charges;
- control and test equipment.
- improving the safety of nuclear weapons;
- production of automated process control systems, electro-vacuum devices for nuclear power plants.
Founded in 1954, the institute changed several names:
- The first branch of KB-11.
- KB-25.
- Research Institute of Aviation Automation.
- All-Union NIIA.
The average number of employees is 5,000 people. VNIIA leadership:
- Director - Loparev S. Yu.
- Chief Designer - A. Sidorov
- Scientific adviser - Andriyash A.V.
Address VNIIA them. Dukhov: Moscow, st. Suschevskaya, 22.
Consider the feedback of employees about the institute:
- Stable salary (indexation of salary is carried out).
- Award based on the results of labor activity.
- Scheduled Holidays.
- Volumetric social package.
- Large workforce - conflicts with superiors and colleagues are possible.
In general, workers note all the pros and cons of a large-scale state-owned enterprise.
Institute structure
The system of this VNIIA includes a number of research and production complexes and departments of various areas of activity:
- Subdivisions are design, engineering, computational-theoretical, research, testing.
- Production workshops.
- Technological and materials science divisions.
- Regime services.
- Divisions are administrative, planned, financial and economic.
- Auxiliary and supporting departments.
The whole structure is changing and improving, following the general development of VNIIA them. Spirit.
The institute can present the "three whales":
- Scientific schools recognized in Russia. More than 200 candidate and doctoral degrees were defended by specialists of this institute.
- Highly qualified staff.
- Technological, industrial and research bases.
VNIIA activities
Areas of activity of FSUE VNIIA named after Dukhov following:
- Research - from applied to basic.
- Creation of elementary base projects, individual devices, systems and complexes.
- Modeling the operation of products, the behavior of their structures and circuits in various conditions.
- Calculation of the reliability, safety and efficiency of products.
- Development of technological and design documentation of both prototypes and serial products.
- Manufacturing products.
- Laboratory and field studies of products.
- Providing author support for products during their further operation.
Institute Features
Briefly get acquainted with the capabilities of VNIIA named after Dukhov:
- Three-, four-dimensional modeling.
- Prototyping complex elements using 3D printers.
- High performance programmable hardware.
- Universal machines, automatic machines and semi-automatic machines, which can independently perform work from the workpiece to the precision machining using cutting, pressing, electroerosion, laser processing, etc.
- Heat treatment of parts in furnaces with automatic support of a certain temperature.
- Equipment for applying decorative, composite, paintwork, anticorrosive, chemical, galvanic coatings.
- Equipment for joining dissimilar materials - metal and ceramics, metal and glass.
- Devices for casting and processing ceramic parts.
- Equipment that allows the production of high-current and high-voltage elements by winding wires, foil, polymer film, magnetic tape.
- The use of pouring and impregnation processes with polymerizing and liquid dielectrics, compounds and foams.
- The presence of vacuum installations for spraying nano-, thin and thick films from both mono- and multicomponent materials.
- Automated lines that independently assemble complex electronic structures.
- Auto soldering quality control, in-circuit control of prefabricated products.
- Dozens of unique complexes for subtle studies of physical phenomena, studying the behavior of materials and products in extreme conditions, measuring a huge range of physical characteristics and parameters.
Institute sites
VNIIA them. Dukhov in Moscow has several scientific and production sites:
- "Novoslobodskaya" - NIIA itself.
- "Mytishchi" - a research and production complex of automotive equipment.
- Moskvorechye is a research and production complex of electric vacuum devices.
- Tsaritsyno is a research and production complex of impulse technology.
- Otradnoye is a center for emergency response and robotics.
NIIA complexes
VNIIIA named after Dukhov includes the following complexes:
- Analytical. It is effectively used when creating new materials, studying the effects of various media on them. This is equipment that can provide experiments and studies using chromatography, spectral analysis, analytical chemistry, etc.
- Test. These are barometric, shock, climatic, hydrostatic, centrifugal, vibration, thermal shock, thermal installations. All inventions and products are tested here.
- Research. These are special neutron-physical facilities, which can also generate x-ray, neutron radiation.
Institute bases
It is important for us to highlight the following:
- Nanoplasmonics. Analytical and technological equipment allows you to create elements of nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics, as well as to study the physics of such materials.
- Information and computing base. The use of an integrated system of work management and planning, a corporate management information system, a corporate computer network. A supercomputer center has been created for the institute. There is a 3D-design complex with a full virtual immersion room.
- Laboratory base. The entire base consists of 1,500 high-precision measuring systems, some of which are unique in their accuracy, degree of automation and ranges.
VNIIA products
The output of VNIIA them. N. L. Dukhov is the following:
- The most complicated hydraulic and pneumatic mechanisms.
- Electrophysical devices that form superstrong pulsed electric currents and high voltage.
- Components with high radiation, mechanical and thermal resistance.
- Semiconductor and electric vacuum special devices.
- Software and hardware for automatic process control systems, including high responsibility.
- Recorders of physical fast processes with a limiting time resolution.
- Converters of x-ray, gamma, electromagnetic, optical, neutron fields into an electrical signal.
- Application and system special software.
The production uses ultra-modern materials: gaseous, liquid, solid dielectrics, optical, magnetic and piezoelectric components with desired properties.
VNIIIA named after Dukhov is one of the most innovative Russian institutions. Both its bases, equipment, and projects, inventions, and manufactured products are unique.