Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (MITT; russian: Акционерное общество «Корпорация Московский институт теплотехники», , JSC Corporation "Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology")
is a Russian (formerly Soviet) engineering and scientific
research institute founded on May 13, 1946. The institute is located in the
Otradnoye District
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in the north of Moscow.
Previously, it was primarily focused on developing
ballistic missile
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s and
rocket
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s to increase the nation's strategic deterrent capability. Today it is also involved in civilian projects and has modified some of its
intercontinental ballistic missile
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s into
launch vehicle
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s to be used for
satellites
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. The name can also be translated as Moscow Institute of Thermal Equipment.
History
April 19, 1945 the
State Defense Committee of the USSR issued a decree №8206 ordering the People's Commissar for Armament
Boris Vannikov to create a weapons design bureau and a pilot plant for missiles.
[ГКО СССР. № 8206. 19 апреля. Постановление. Об организации в системе Наркомата боеприпасов конструкторского бюро и опытного завода по реактивным снарядам.](_blank)
In accordance with this resolution, in 1945 was created the Central Design Bureau GTSKB 1 under
People's Commissariat for Armament (the Commissariat for military ammunition and other such things); the GTSKB-1 was actively engaged in collecting materials from the German rocket technology. During the post-war reorganization of the Soviet economy in early 1946 the
People's Commissariat for Armament was transformed into the Ministry of Agricultural Engineering of the USSR.
A decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR №1017-419ss from May 13, 1946 ordered the Ministry of Agricultural Engineering to create a research institute of rocket propellants based on GTSKB-1.
May 15, 1946 order number 114ss of the Minister of Agricultural Engineering created Research Institute № 1 (NII-1) as part of the 6th Main Directorate; NII-1 fulfilled the requirement of establishing a research institute of rocket propellants based on GTSKB-1. May 18, 1946 by order number 118ss, NII-1 (formerly GTSKB 1) was incorporated into the newly formed General Directorate for Jet Technology ministry. In 1947, the order № 126 of the Minister approved the Regulations on the institute NII-1 (the organization of the same name existed in many sectors, which was considered an additional condition of secrecy work).
In 1966 the institute was transferred to the jurisdiction of the
Ministry of the Defense Industry. In March 1966 NII-1 was given its current name.
Aleksandr Nadiradze was chief designer of the institute from 1967 to 1987.
In July 2009 the institute's General Director and Chief designer
Yuri Solomonov Yuri may refer to:
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resigned after the July 15, 2009 test launch failure of
Bulava naval-based
ICBM designed by MITT.
Director of Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology changes after ICBM failure
ITAR-TASS, 22.07.2009
Structure
Companies included in JSC MITT:
Rockets and missiles
*Start-1
Start-1 is a Russian satellite launch vehicle based on the RT-2PM Topol, a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile developed by Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology.
History
The Start-1 launch vehicle derives its name from the Strategic ...
* RPK-9 Medvedka
* TR-1 Temp
*SS-16 Sinner
The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42.
The RT-21 was the first mobile ...
*RT-2PM Topol
The RT-2PM Topol (russian: РТ-2ПМ Тополь ("Poplar"); NATO reporting name SS-25 Sickle; GRAU designation: 15Ж58 ("15Zh58"); START I designation: RS-12M Topol) is a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile designed in the Soviet Union a ...
* RT-2PM2 Topol-M
* RS-24 Yars
* RSM-56 Bulava
* BZhRK Barguzin
* RS-26 Rubezh
See also
* Titan-Barrikady
References
External links
Official website
from Nuclear Threat Initiative.
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20150611003936/http://gossipscentral.com/technology/thermal-technology/ Thermal Technology
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