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.
Types of activity at the Institute
The Institute deals with defense and industrial topics. Main directions of activity:
- nuclear weapons
- systems for detonating nuclear charges
- non-nuclear components and devices for automatics of nuclear weapons
- automatic test equipment
- improving the safety of nuclear weapons
- production of automated process control systems for nuclear power plants
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.