NL Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "NL Dukhov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Automation" (VNIIA) – is one of the leading enterprises 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:
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. Moscow City Cultural Heritage Department considered the demolition "unauthorized". The Moscow government, which has no authority to stop demolition work in territory under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, said it condemned the actions of the NL Dukhov VNIIA, stressing that "there are moral principles that need to be observed... The actions of VNIIA are fundamentally wrong and require verification by the relevant state authorities.
History.
The institute was established in 1954 as branch No. 1 KB-11 of the now widely known Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), in Sarov, Russia (formerly named Arzamas-16). In 1956, the institute (VNIIA) was separated into an independent design bureau KB-25 of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building. Since then the company has changed the name repeatedly: since 1966 – the "Aviapribor" plant, since 1969 – the Research Institute of Aviation Automation, since 1986 – the All-Union Research Institute of Automation named after N.L.Dukhova, and from 1992 to the present – FSUE Dukhov Automatics Research Institute.
It is also part of the Union of Oil and Gas Equipment Manufacturers.