The story
Founded by Nikolay Zhukovsky on Dec 1, 1918.1
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 Konstantin 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 as the Moscow complex of TsAGI. In 1965 the Department of Aeromechanics and Flight Engineering of MIPT was established in Zhukovsky to educate specialists for aerospace industry.
TsAGI participated in the Energia rocket and the Space Shuttle Buran projects.
From Wikipedia’s article on Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3