Russian Laboratories
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF)
Location: Sarov
VNIIEF was founded in Arzamas-16 (Sarov) in 1946 as the main nulcear weapons research and development facility for the Soviet Union. It produced both warheads and bombs. It now performs work on warhead and weapons automation and non-nuclear ammunition; materials science, nuclear and laser physics and engineering, and supercomputers. It also performs work in ppower engineering, mechanical engineering, instrumentation, the environment, and medicine.
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF)
Location: Snezhinsk
The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF) was established in 1955 in Snezhinsk for the development of nuclear weapons. As a Russian federal nuclear center, VNIITF was involved in designing nuclear weapons and providing scientific support for nuclear weapons throughout their life cycle. The Institute is responsible for all gravity bombs and SLBM Warheads as well as other strategic and tactical weapons. It has extensive theoretical and experimental capabilities for designing and nonnuclear testing of nuclear weapons as well as extensive facilities for conducting high-explosives experiments. In 1995, VNIITF joined the Russian-American Laboratory-to-Laboratory program, which designs and implements nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting.
- VNIITF (In Russian)
All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA)
Location: Moscow
The All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics was founded in 1954 for research, development, testing and supervision of warhead production and their non-nuclear warhead components. It also worked with measurement instruments and equipment for monitoring the nuclear arsenal.
