Private company

Dukhov Automatics Research Institute

Logo: ВНИИА, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons³

Research institute in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1954¹

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "NL Dukhov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Automation" (VNIIA) – is an enterprise of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom. Located in Moscow, the main sphere of activity is the development of nuclear weapons and their components.² It employed 5,000 people in 2016.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1954Founded¹

Industryresearch¹
HeadquartersSushchyovskaya Street¹
Websitewww.vniia.ru/eng
Legal formunitary enterprise¹

See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards

ВНИИА2020 — Photo: Design Rosatom, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons⁵

Corporate structure

Dukhov Automatics Research Institute is part of a group headed by Rosatom. 25 entities, 4 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Rosatom Moscow
- Dukhov Automatics Research Institute Sushchyovskaya Street
- Atomenergoprom Subsidiary · Moscow
  - ARMZ Uranium Holding Subsidiary · Moscow
    - Uranium One Subsidiary · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    - Далур Subsidiary · Uksyanskoye, Russia
  - Atomenergomash Subsidiary · Moscow
    - Atommash Subsidiary · Volgodonsk
    - Energomashspetsstal Subsidiary · Kramatorsk, Ukraine
  - Rosenergoatom Subsidiary · Moscow
- Atomflot Subsidiary · Murmansk
- Atomstroyexport Subsidiary · Moscow
  - Nukem Technologies Subsidiary · Karlstein am Main
    - Transnuklear Subsidiary · Hanau, Germany
- Kraftway Subsidiary
- Mining and Chemical Combine Subsidiary · Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant Subsidiary · Novosibirsk
- OKB Gidropress Subsidiary · Podolsk
- OKBM Afrikantov Subsidiary · Nizhny Novgorod
- Tekhsnabexport Subsidiary · Moscow
  - Саратоворгсинтез Subsidiary · Saratov
- Базальт (Саратов) Subsidiary · Saratov, Russia
- Luch Scientific Production Association Subsidiary · Podolsk, Russia
- NII TFA Subsidiary · Nagorny District, Russia
- ZiO-Podolsk Subsidiary · Podolsk, Russia

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

The institute was established in 1954 as branch No. 1 KB-11 of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), in Sarov, Russia (formerly named Arzamas-16). In 1956, the institute (VNIIA) was separated into an independent design bureau KB-25 of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building. Since then the company has changed the name repeatedly: since 1966 – the "Aviapribor" plant, since 1969 – the Research Institute of Aviation Automation, since 1986 – the All-Union Research Institute of Automation named after N.L.Dukhov, and from 1992 to the present – FSUE Dukhov Automatics Research Institute.

From Wikipedia’s article on NL Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Products and brands

automation technology
electronic vacuum device
nuclear weapon

Listed on Wikidata.¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Rosatom

From Wikidata.¹

Employees over time

20165,000¹

Controversies and legal

Controversies

In 2015, the institute demolished the apartment building N. F. Rzhevsky (which was one of its buildings) – a building built in 1902, located at Sushchevskaya street No. 16, p. 8 within the boundaries of cultural heritage protection zones. Moscow City Cultural Heritage Department considered the demolition "unauthorized". The Moscow government, which has no authority to stop demolition work in territory under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, condemned the actions of the NL Dukhov VNIIA, stressing that "there are moral principles that need to be observed... The actions of VNIIA are fundamentally wrong and require verification by the relevant state authorities."