Gas Dynamics Laboratory

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GAS DYNAMICS LABORATORY, the first national research and development organisation specialising in space technology. It was founded in Moscow in 1921 as N. I. Tikhomirov's Laboratory for Development of Inventions. Shifted to Leningrad in 1925, it was a success in launching rocket projectiles at the Main Artillery Range in 1928, which later became the basis for missile development. It was renamed as the Gas Dynamic Laboratory in the same year. Specialising in rocket development, the Gas Dynamic Laboratory and the lab's Design Office with V. P. Glushko at the head joined the Rocket Research Institute in Moscow in 1933. A museum was opened in 1973 to reflect the history of the Gas Dynamic Laboratory and Design Office at the Ioannovsky Ravelin of SS. Peter&Paul's Cathedral, which accommodated the lab's test benches and workshops in 1932-33. The museum exhibits include documents, pictures, and full-scaled models of rockets designed by the Development Office, as well as a descent vehicle of Soyuz 16. The museum is part of the St. Petersburg History Museum. There are memorial plaques erected on the buildings of the Main Admiralty and Ioannovsky Ravelin in honour of the 40th anniversary of the Gas Dynamic Laboratory Development Office in 1969.

Reference: Александрова Л. М., Овчинников Л. А. Музей "Газодинамическая лаборатория": Путеводитель. Л., 1987.

O. N. Ansberg. Glushko Valentin Petrovich
Tikhomirov Nikolay Ivanovich
Петропавловская крепость
Александрова Л. М., Овчинников Л. А. Музей "Газодинамическая лаборатория": Путеводитель. Л., 1987 St. Petersburg Museum of History
1973