Reactive Scientific Research Institute
Reactive Scientific Research Institute (commonly known by the joint initialism RNII; Russian: Реактивный научно-исследовательский институт, romanized: Reaktivnyy nauchno-issledovatel’skiy institut) was one of the first Soviet research and development institutions to focus on rocket technology. RNII developed the Katyusha rocket launcher and its research and development were very important for later achievements of the Soviet rocket and space programs.
Katyusha rocket launchers firing during WWII, which were created at RNII | |
| Parent institution | People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry |
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| Founder(s) | Gas Dynamics Laboratory and Group for the Study of Reactive Motion |
| Established | 21 September 1933 |
| Key people | Sergei Korolev, Valentin Glushko |
| Address | Onezhskaya St, 8/10 |
| Location | , , |
| Dissolved | 18 February 1944 transferred to the Scientific-Research Institute 1 (NII-1) |
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| Soviet space program |
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