State Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Systems


State Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Systems or GosNIIAS for short is a Russian aerospace research centre. Founded by the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on 26 February 1946 from a number of laboratories of the Flight Research Institute for operations research and aviation weapons systems development. The new institute was named NII-2. In March 1994 the institute was re-named with its current name.
Initially, the institute was located in the buildings of the former Sergievo-Elizabethan Asylum.
In GosNIIAS, there are six basic departments leading students and graduate students from three universities: