The All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics (Russian acronym - VNIIA), one of the three nuclear weapons designers in Russia, was founded in 1954 on initiative of academician Yuli B. Khariton, who was the immediate manager of the development of the first atomic charges and bombs in the Soviet Union. Under the Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers, KB-25 (the first official name of VNIIA) was turned over to the USSR Ministry of Medium Machine-Building as an affiliated facility of the first Soviet nuclear center, which is today the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russia Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov). Currently VNIIA is the part of the nuclear weapons complex of the State Corporation for Atomic Energy "Rosatom".

Activities for both the defense and the civil spheres are presently underway at the Institute.

Nikolai L. Dukhov

VNIIA Quality System is certified for compliance with the following standards:
Non - military sector -
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The Institute has well-equipped Research & Production Centers and Complexes, research & design, production and other divisions that include:

• Theoretical, development, design, research and testing units;
• Process-engineering and material science units;
• Production shops;
• Economical, planning and management units;
• Security forces;
• Auxiliary units.

The organizational structure is changing together with the progress of science and technology, it depends on the manpower and is aimed at accomplishing the missions of the Institute. More >>

	DEFENCE SPHERE

The most important defense areas of VNIIA are developments of:

• Nuclear weapons for the strategic and tactical platforms;
• Firing and neutron initiation systems for the nuclear weapons;
• Non-nuclear components and automatics for the nuclear weapons;
• Nuclear explosion monitoring equipment;
• Unified test & measurement equipment;
• Hardware and methods for measurement of the nuclear charge parameters during the experimenting activities.

According to the State Armament Program, VNIIA together with the other Rosatom facilities of the nuclear weapons complex is providing the scientific and technical support of the National nuclear stockpile, first of all, maintaining the safety and reliability of the weapons.
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	CIVIL SPHERE

The main activities for the civil sphere include the development and production of:

• Software & hardware for automatic process control systems at heat and nuclear power plants;
• pressure transducers and relays;
• neutron generators and generator-driven equipment;
• X-ray units;
• radiation monitors;
• equipment for detection of fast processes;
• arc protection equipment for power generation industry;
• industrial firing devices.

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