The Krylov State Research Center (russian: Крыловский государственный научный центр) is a Russian shipbuilding research and development institute, which operates as a federal state-owned
unitary enterprise
A unitary enterprise (russian: унитарное предприятие) is a government-owned corporation in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. Unitary enterprises are business entities that have no ownership rights to the assets that th ...
.
The institute is named after
Aleksey Krylov
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, the Russian naval designer and mathematician who was one of its first superintendents, and is based in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.
History
The institute was established in 1894, to operate the Russian Empire's first
ship model basin
A ship model basin is a basin or tank used to carry out hydrodynamic tests with ship models, for the purpose of designing a new (full sized) ship, or refining the design of a ship to improve the ship's performance at sea. It can also refer to ...
—the Naval Administration Towing Tank—on
New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg. On 8 March that year, Emperor
Alexander III and members of the royal family toured the facility, which is considered the foundation date of the institute.
[History 1894]
, Krylov State Research Center. On 3 January 1900, Aleksey Krylov was appointed acting superintendent of the Tank, and proposed the establishment of a broader shipbuilding research institute based around the tank, including laboratories for electrical engineering, and physical, chemical and mechanical testing.
[J J O'Connor and E F Robertson]
''MacTutor History of Mathematics'', University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Originally subordinate to the
Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry The People's Commissariat of the Shipbuilding Industry of the USSR (''Народный комиссариат судостроительной промышленности CCCP'') was one of the central offices in the Soviet Union, the equivalent of ...
of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
, the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute (KSRI) worked only for the
Soviet Navy, but now operates in all ship science disciplines, and conducts sponsored research for international commercial shipbuilding companies.
[Majumdar, Peter]
Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia: An Update
'' Newsletter 96-003'', Office of Naval Research Europe, 18 June 1996.
See also
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Transactions of the Krylov State Research Center''
References
External links
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Research institutes in Saint Petersburg
Federal State Unitary Enterprises of Russia
Shipbuilding companies of Russia
1894 establishments in the Russian Empire
Russian Navy
Shipbuilding companies of the Soviet Union
Companies based in Saint Petersburg
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Soviet Navy
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